IoT Based Healthcare Monitoring System

Abstract

With the development of the technologies and the miniaturization of sensors, there have been attempts to use the new technologies in different areas to ameliorate the quality of human life. One of the last technologies used is the internet of things. IoT visualizes a future of anything anywhere by anyone at any time. The principal domain that has seen the utilization of IoT is in the healthcare sector. Its concepts have been widely used to interconnect medical resources and offer smart healthcare service to the patients. Therefore, this project is to solve a healthcare problem currently society is facing. The main idea is to monitor one’s health wirelessly and keep track of the patient’s condition or send medical parameters like Body temperature, Pulse rate, and ECG, wirelessly to a physician or doctor. This system is comprised of three main parts. The first part being, detection and collection of patient’s vitals using sensors and Arduino UNO microcontroller, the second part is for relaying and receiving automatically the data to an IoT platform. The IoT platform used in this project is ThingSpeak. And the last part was providing the detected data for remote viewing in order to enable the doctor or guardian to analyze the patient’s health progress away from hospital premises. In addition to a warning push button that can be pressed in an emergency situation in order to send an Email alerts to the hospital services.