Health Monitoring Based on IoT

Among the applications that Internet of Things (IoT) facilitated to the world, Healthcare applications are most important. In general, IoT has been widely used to interconnect the advanced medical resources and to offer smart and effective healthcare services to the people. Patients are facing a pro

Project Title

Health Monitoring Based on IoT

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

Among the applications that Internet of Things (IoT) facilitated to the world, Healthcare applications are most important. In general, IoT has been widely used to interconnect the advanced medical resources and to offer smart and effective healthcare services to the people. Patients are facing a problematic situation of unforeseen demise due to the specific reason of heart problems and heart attack which is because of nonexistence of good medical maintenance to patients at the needed time. In this project, we propose a system for monitoring of pulse rate and body temperature of the person with dedicated sensors along with Raspberry PI and IoT (Internet of Things). Monitoring your beloved ones becomes a difficult task in the modern day life. Keeping track of the health status of your patient at home is a difficult task. Especially old age patients should be periodically monitored and their loved ones need to be informed about their health status from time to time while at work. So we propose an innovative system that automated this task with ease. Our system puts forward a smart patient health monitoring system that uses Sensors to track patient health and uses internet to inform their loved ones and the doctor are alerted through an SMS immediately by displaying it on the LCD or Mobile Screen in case of any issues. In this project, we are proposing an innovative project to dodge such sudden death rates by using Health Monitoring that uses sensor technology. This system uses Temperature and heartbeat sensor for tracking patients’ health. For individuals with heart disease, the Heart Rate (HR) and Body Temperature (BT) values are considered vital signs that must be measured regularly. If system detects any unexpected changes in patient heartbeat or body temperature, the system automatically alerts the user/doctor about the patient’s status over IOT and also shows details of heartbeat and temperature of patient live over the internet. Thus IOT based patient health monitoring system effectively uses internet to monitor the patient health status and save the patients’ lives on time. A perfect tradeoff between accuracy and cost of the system is accomplished by choosing appropriate sensors which are: the first one is a DS18B20 (temperature sensor) and the second one is the Heartbeat sensor KG011 (heart rate sensor) these sensors connected to the Raspberry PI is used to check the patient’s temperature and heart rate. If the temperature and heart rate of the patient is above normal, the doctor is alerted through an SMS/alarm immediately. The pulse rate and temperature of a person at different time instants are measured by the sensors. In this project, we present the idea of a service model in technological and economic views for the comfort of patients and also the open challenges in implementing IoT in real world medical field.

Project Objectives

• Diagnose the health condition of the patients.
• Monitoring patient’s Temperature.
• The DS18B20 temperature sensor connected to the Raspberry PI is used to check the patient’s body temperature. If the temperature of the patient is above normal, the doctor is alerted through an SMS/alarm immediately.
• Monitoring patient’s Heart rate.
• The KG011 heart rate sensor connected to the Raspberry PI is used to check the patient’s heart rate. If the heart rate of the patient is above normal, the doctor is alerted through an SMS/alarm immediately.
• 24 hours of monitoring.
• The use of sensors detects the conditions of the patient and the data is collected and transferred using a microcontroller.
• Taking feedbacks over certain interval (through the algorithm we came up with) to keep track of patient’s health and report it to doctor.
• Internet of Things (IoT) is the emerging technology, which contains huge amount of smart object and smart devices connected to the internet for communicating with each other.
• In this project to analyze and compute the patient health we are using Raspberry Pi, which is the heart of this project.
• These smart devices are used to collect temperature, heart rate information etc., which are used to evaluate the health condition of the patient.
• The final results are displayed on the android/computer device, on web server and also the results are sent to the user/doctor through SMS.
• These data results can be stored in database center which can be invoked from remote location at any time in an emergency case of patient without delaying the time.
• This project may play vital role in saving the patient life at emergency time since “Time is life”.
• Easy to use: It will be a very handy tool as it shows all the data collection and information by using just only the internet. So, it reduces the workloads and stress of the relatives of the patient who work outsides.

Project Implementation Method

In this project, I have proposed a system in which patient’s body temperature and heart rate reading results that are being monitored by the system. The various sensors are placed on the patient’s body and they take the readings and send the corresponding signal to the raspberry pi. The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized single-board computer. Here, various sensors are used to measure the patient’s body temperature and heart rate and their respective results are sent to the database via Raspberry Pi and can be monitored from anywhere worldwide through the internet. The programming in Raspberry Pi is done in python language and it sends the data related to the patients’ health to the server connected via Internet. The details can be easily accessed online by proper authentication and health status of the patient can be monitored. In this project, I found the importance and fruitful benefits of implementation of IoT in remote health monitoring systems. The compact sensors with IoT will make a huge impact on every Patient’s life. The sensory data can be acquired in home or work environments. Also, the challenges in sensing, analytics and prediction of the disease are also highlighted and those can be addressed to provide a seamless integration into the medical field.

Benefits of the Project

• IOT Monitoring proves really helpful when we need to monitor & record and keep track of changes in the health parameters of the patient over the period of time. So with the IOT health monitoring, we can have the database of these changes in the health parameters.
• Hospital stays are minimized due to Remote Patient Monitoring.
• Patient health parameter data is stored over the cloud. So it is more beneficial than maintaining the records on printed papers kept in the files. Or even the digital records which are kept in a particular computer or laptop or memory device like a pen- drive. Because there are chances that these devices can get corrupt and data might be lost. Whereas, in the case of IOT, the cloud storage is more reliable and does have minimal chances of data loss.
• Reduction in human error:

In IoT based healthcare monitoring Physical health information like heart rate, body temperature etc. is collected vary accurately by sensors and corresponding decisions is taken by big data analytics technique it helps in minimizing human errors.

• Minimum paperwork and documentation:

Internet of Things based Internet healthcare monitoring support green technology and minimize paperwork and documentation.

• Immediate medical attention: IoT based medical devices can alarm healthcare provider or doctors or family members in case of medical  emergency like rise in heart rate, body temperature etc.
• Better outcomes of treatment: 24/7 health monitoring and evidence based treatment decisions will help to cure diseases on timely basis. It will increase treatment outcomes in result.
• Simultaneous reporting and monitoring:Real-time monitoring via connected devices can save lives in event of a medical emergency like heart failure etc. The IoT device collects and transfers health data like heart rate, body temperature etc. These data are stored in the cloud and can be shared with an authorized person, who could be a physician, family member etc. to allow them to look at the collected data regardless of their place, time, or device.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

This project is an IOT Based. So, in final it is a kind of Health Monitoring by using different sensors that are connected to the Raspberry PI which simply takes input from the sensors, these sensors used to check the patients’ condition and show the output to the doctor/user. If the patient condition is above normal, the doctor is alerted through an SMS/alarm immediately. This can be done by using different this project.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Education , Medical , Health

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Cloud Infrastructure

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People

Required Resources

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