Real Time Wireless Health Monitoring Application Using Mobile Devices

Abstract

In the last decade the healthcare monitoring systems have drawn considerable attentions of the researchers. The prime goal was to develop a reliable patient monitoring system so that the healthcare professionals can monitor their patients, who are either hospitalized or executing their normal daily life activities. In this work we present a mobile device based wireless healthcare monitoring system that can provide real time online information about physiological conditions of a patient. Our proposed system is designed to measure and monitor important physiological data of a patient in order to accurately describe the status of her/his health and fitness. In addition the proposed system is able to send alarming message about the patient's critical health data by text messages or by email reports. By using the information contained in the text or e-mail message the healthcare professional can provide necessary medical advising. The system mainly consists of sensors, the data acquisition unit, microcontroller (i.e., Arduino), and software (i.e., LabVIEW). The patient's temperature, heart beat rate, muscles, blood pressure, blood glucose level, and ECG data are monitored, displayed, and stored by our system. To ensure reliability and accuracy the proposed system has been field tested. The test results show that our system is able to measure the patient's physiological data with a very high accuracy.

Development of Real Time Heart Rate Monitoring & Alert System with GSM & GPS Techniques

“…Janny S. Choy et.al studied a fully implantable telemetry system to measure hemodynamic in swine heart failure with the help of a wirelessly positioned radio frequency link [10]. Amna Abdullah et.al has developed a real time wireless health monitoring system using Zig-bee technology with lab-view software as front end program for recording physiological parameters [11].…”

Online Monitoring Based Versatile Telemedical System

“…The healthcare professionals play the major role in day to day life [2].The main aim of this paper is to develop continuous monitoring ECG signal and movement of patient [3].Every time it is not possible for doctors to monitor the patient hence we develop android phone based monitoring system [2].It include anything like medical services at the inpatient or outpatient stage. The patients who live in rural areas they not get proper medical service without any transportation barriers.…”

“…Today "Smartphone" plays important role in transmit medical information and advice. Smartphone's will be the most popular technological development for the doctors [2].…”

“…Health is very important for human being [2]. Telemedicine is highly interested and used in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, rehabitation hospitals, homes, schools developed area for purpose of monitoring increase patients comfort and improve living standard of patients [4].Tele-health system have many applications like prisons or health department [3].…”

“…The specialist doctor and the patient separated by thousands of kilometers use mobile App to continuous monitoring of ECG signal and movement of patient [1]. Careful design of hardware and software component of the system is able to fulfill any further requirement of users [2].…”