Automated Health Monitoring System for Domestic and

Hospital Applications
Samarth Mehta, Soumobrata Ghosh, Dhritiman Dutta, Soumipya Sarkar
School Of Electrical Engineering (SELECT)
Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore

Abstract- Nowadays, the health care sensors are playing an essential role in hospitals. The patient
monitoring system is one of the major developments because of its innovative technology. An automatic
wireless health monitoring system is used to measure patient’s body temperature and heartbeat by using
embedded technology. The proposed system uses both the sensors like heartbeat sensor and temperature
sensor. These sensors mainly involves in monitoring the condition of the patient. a wireless system
project, namely automatic wireless health monitoring system. The main goal of this project is to monitor
the vital parameters of the patient’s body and display the same to the doctor using wireless technology.

Keywords: Heart rate sensors, ECG sensors, Signal processing, Temperature sensor, AirFlow sensor, IoT

Introduction:

The Internet of Things (IoT) makes smart objects the ultimate building blocks in the development of
cyber-physical smart pervasive frameworks. The IoT has a variety of application domains, including
health care. The IoT revolution is redesigning modern health care with promising technological,
economic, and social prospects [1]. The IoT has the potential to give rise to many medical applications
such as remote health monitoring, fitness programs, chronic diseases, and elderly care. Compliance with
treatment and medication at home and by healthcare providers is another important potential application.
Therefore, various medical devices, sensors, and diagnostic and imaging devices can be viewed as smart
devices or objects constituting a core part. IoT-based healthcare services are expected to reduce costs,
increase the quality of life, and enrich the user’s experience [2].
Recent works in communication technologies have inspired the field of telemedicine to a large extent.
Telemedicine benefits not only the customers who are able to receive health care more efficiently, it also
benefits the doctors who can streamline their efforts to assist more patients. The advances in information
and communication technologies enable technically, the continuous monitoring of health related
parameters with sensors, wherever the user happens to be. They provide valuable real time information
enabling the physicians to monitor and analyze a patient’s current and previous state of health.[3]

Developing a system for the users to achieve the following objectives [4]:

1.) To develop gathering patient medical data that was never before available for analysis and
delivering care to people for whom care wasn’t previously accessible.
2.) To develop IoT-driven systems for making it possible to radically reduce costs and improve
health by increasing the
3.) Availability and quality of care.
4.) To develop and manufacture embedded technologies for use throughout IoT-driven healthcare
systems, including:
• Sensors that collect patient data.
• Microcontrollers that process, analyse and wirelessly communicate the data.
• Microprocessors that enable rich graphical user interfaces.
5.) To develop Healthcare-specific gateways through which sensor data is further analysed and sent
to the cloud.
6.) To execute queries that can arrange data of tables in the form ascending order and descending
order.

Emerging technological innovations enabled by next generation sensors will define the landscape for the
future commercialization of life changing medical devices. There is exponential growth of the global
sensors market and the demand for next generation integrated systems. Low cost materials and advances
in nano and micro fabrication techniques within the manufacturing process have led to significant
increases in the commercialization of sensors for healthcare applications.[5]
Sensor is a device for the detection of an analyte that combines a biological component with a
physicochemical detector component. It normally consists of three parts [6]:

1) The sensitive biological element (biological material, a biologically derived material or biomimic

2) The transducer or detector element works in a physicochemical way that transforms the signal resulting
from the interaction of the analyte with the biological element into another signal (i.e., transducers) that
can be more easily measured and quantified

3) The associated electronics or signal processors that are primarily responsible for the display of the
results in a user-friendly way.

ensors have four main components: sensing, processing, communication, and energy/power units. Body
sensors fall into two main categories, implantable and wearable. The former measure parameters inside
the body and mostly operate as interfaces to relatively small software components attached to or
implanted into human bodies. The implantable sensors provide bidirectional communication interfaces
between a person and a remote information system that provides healthcare services, diagnosis, or
upgrades [7]. Wearable sensors, although not as invasive as their implantable counterparts, nevertheless
must withstand the human body’s normal movements and infringe on them as little as possible. Wearable
sensors may be categorized according to their functional aim [8].

Many leading hospitals are already embracing wireless technology as a means of enhancing both patient
care and productivity. The uses for wireless in a healthcare environment have advanced significantly over
the last few years. As well as providing comfort and mobility to patients, wireless medical telemetry
devices allow hospitals to better manage resources and improve medical efficiency and practices.[9]

Real-time communications can strengthen safety, elevate service and improve overall efficiency. Patient
Safety And SecurityInstant and discreet communication among security and staff give you the upper hand
in creating an environment that is safe and welcoming. When emergencies occur, security must
communicate quickly and efficiently, coordinate a response across the property – whether a small clinic
or a large campus – and make sure patients and staff are out of harm’s way. By giving security personnel
and staff the right devices and information, they can guide patients to safety and provide real-time
updates.[10]

The technologies for healthcare have run an impressive evolution in signal/image processing, computers,
and network communications and have facilitated the development of effective signal/image processing
techniques in consumer electronics. Accordingly, the quality of community and home healthcare has been
significantly improved and many portable devices have also been developed for a wide variety of
applications where signal processing-based software plays a pivotal role in their success. The goal of this
special issue is to provide most up-to-date and recent advances of signal/image processing techniques in
system and network design of healthcare applications and to serve as a forum and venue for researchers in
both academia and industries working in this fascinating and emerging area who share their experiences
and findings with the readers [11].
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