ASTECHMA Detection and Monitoring system for Asthma Triggering Factors
Asthma is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell and produce extra mucus. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath. For some people, asthma is a minor nuisance. For others, it can be a major problem that interferes with daily activities and
2025-06-28 16:30:18 - Adil Khan
ASTECHMA Detection and Monitoring system for Asthma Triggering Factors
Project Area of Specialization Wearables and ImplantableProject SummaryAsthma is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell and produce extra mucus. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath. For some people, asthma is a minor nuisance. For others, it can be a major problem that interferes with daily activities and may lead to a life-threatening asthma attack. Asthma can't be cured, but its symptoms can be controlled. Because asthma often changes over time, it's important that you work with your doctor to track your signs and symptoms and adjust treatment as needed. We are designing a flexible system characterized by low-cost sensing nodes that assures robust and continuous monitoring of air conditions in order to analyses the asthma trigger factors. Asthma is a chronic condition that mostly affects adolescents. It is a condition that requires continuous monitoring of the symptoms in order to provide an effective course of treatment. Temperature, humidity & gas sensor for gathering, sending and receiving information from different sensors, external servers and on the application which we develop with this system. This system permits to establish correlations between the air quality parameters and the appearance of respiratory diseases such as asthma as part of environment medicine approach. After being processed the information and, depending of the results obtained, the system will display the messages on the application if their range is beyond the required limit. In this way a self-management system is designed for asthmatic patient. It is a wearable device that monitor the patient’s condition by:
- Alerting the patient by generating a message on the user’s application. So that, patient can take his medications.
- All the information, results, perception of patient’s condition and triggering location will be uploaded on the cloud account.
- Other people can also view the geographical location of the triggering factors.
- Data will be uploaded on the cloud account so that the physicians can later use this data to accurately access the condition of the patient and treat them according to his condition.
The objective of this project is to develop a system to analyse the trigger factor of asthma and a device that can use by asthma patients, which can perform multiple functions that monitor the patient’s condition and to provide continuous care and tips. The different functionalities in a point of care device that are considered vital in caring for patients with asthma are discussed below. The idea behind this work is to develop a point of care device and application which can ideally be integrated with an alarm to remind the patients to take their medication and also a memory which stores all the test results, patients’ perception of their condition and the regularity with which the inhaler is used so that the physicians can later use these data to accurately assess the condition of the patient.
The aim and objective of this project is to develop a device that can be used by asthma patients
It is a wearable device that monitor the patient’s condition by:
- Alerting the patient by generating a message on the user’s application. So that, patient can take his medications.
- All the information, results, perception of patient’s condition and triggering location will be uploaded on the cloud account.
- Other people can also view the geographical location of the triggering factors.
- Data will be uploaded on the cloud account so that the physicians can later use this data to accurately access the condition of the patient and treat them according to his condition.
The primary objective of this project work is to develop a flexible system characterized by low-cost sensing nodes that assures robust and continuous monitoring of air conditions in order to analyses the asthma trigger factors. Temperature, humidity & gas sensor for gathering, sending and receiving information from different sensors, external servers and on the application which we develop with this system. This system permits to establish correlations between the air quality parameters and the appearance of respiratory diseases such as asthma as part of environment medicine approach. After being processed the information and, depending of the results obtained, the system will display the messages on the application if their range is beyond the required limit. In this way a self-management system is designed for asthmatic patient.
Project Implementation Method- Esp32 microcontroller, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, gas sensor will sense.
- Sensors will send data to Azure Cloud Server.
- Server will notify the user (patient/Guardian) through application.
Major Benefits includes:
- Benefit to Asthma Patient
- Benefit to the guardian of asthma patient (as he will also be notified about the attack on time)
- Better Control of Asthma
- Benefit for doctor of the patient (as he will be able to see the report generated by application of the user)
- Reduce need of hospitalization.
- Show risks of an upcoming attack
- Show locations where patient can get attack
- Daily Tips for patient.
Final Deliverable will be a Wearable/Portable device and Android Application
Hardware Detail:
- Gas Sensor MQ135
- Humidity Sensor DHT11
- Microcontroller ESP32
System Features:
- Humidity Sensor
- Gas Sensor
- Temperature Sensor
- Cloud server
- Application
Description and Priority:
- Patient should login to the application. (Medium Priority)
- Guardian should login to the application. (Low Priority)
- If patient and guardian are not registered already, they have to make account (sign-up). (High Priority)
- There are three sensors Humidity, Gas and Temperature. Sensors are sensing values. (High Priority)
- Sensors update values on cloud server. (High Priority)
- Cloud server sends notification on application to the user. (High Priority)
Functional Requirements:
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- Humidity Sensor gets the value
- Gas Sensor gets the value
- Temparature Sensor gets the value
- After getting values data is updated on cloud server.
- Show values on application.
| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 3380 | |||
| Gas Sensor MQ135 | Equipment | 1 | 380 | 380 |
| Humidity Sensor DHT11 | Equipment | 1 | 220 | 220 |
| Microcontroller ESP32 | Equipment | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Arduino | Equipment | 1 | 680 | 680 |
| Soldering Iron | Equipment | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| Soldering Stand | Equipment | 1 | 150 | 150 |
| Soldering Wire | Equipment | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Soldering Paste | Equipment | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Veroboard | Equipment | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Jumper Wires | Equipment | 15 | 10 | 150 |
| 9V rechargeable battery | Equipment | 1 | 500 | 500 |