Abstract:
Taking care of our family member health it becomes a very difficult task
nowdays. We all have or at least know, an elderly family member that we are always
worried about their health. In this thesis I will try to explain and demonstrate a
system that can monitor health of the patient. This system will demonstrate and it
will monitor the health of the patient as a routine check,for example monitoring
health of an elderly patient.This system uses pulse sensor and temperature to monitor
and inform about our family members health.
There are five sensors in this monitoring system:
1)Temperature sensor -which measures the body temperature of the patient.
2)Pulse sensor-which measures the pulse of the patient.
3)Humidity sensor-which check the humidity in the air.
The sensors are connected to a controller and this controller is connected to the internet
using GSM module to report alerts or update the stats of the patient. If the system
detects any changes in pulse or the body temperature,it will alert the person that is
monitoring the patient over the IoT and details and useful information about the patient
in real time.
The controller,in this case ARDUINO MEGA 2560 is an open-source electronics
platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software is used to analyze the different
inputs that comes from pulse sensor so it can send an alert to the monitoring system.
Another very useful thing is that all the processes and all the inputs for the different
sensors on the system are recorded online.We all know that privacy and confidentiality
of the information is important.In my opinion,this monitoring system that I’m building
is a prototype.Of course as a prototype,it will need a lot of work to be a perfect
monitoring system and one of the part will be the security of the privacy.
These records can be used later or in the feature for fully analysis and review of the
patient’s health condition.
By fully analysis I mean that the patient will be monitored lets say 30 days. After the
monitored period,a doctor will analyze and give feedback regarding the health of the
patient.IoT patient health monitoring system will effectively use the internet to track
all the patient health records and stats.