INTERNET OF THINGS BASE REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM Amar Palwankar 1, Saurabh kotawadekar 2, Amit Patil 3,Sushant Patil 4 1 Asst.Prof, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri 2 Student, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri 3 Student, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri 4 Student, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri Abstract : In 21 st century population increases at very high rate and patients in hospitals are also increasing. So taking care of every patient visiting to hospitals or medical clinics becoming very difficult task. Hence there is need of more effective monitoring systems for patients which can give report of remote patient to doctor. This paper is based monitoring of remote patient. We designed a reliable, energy efficient remote patient monitoring system using IOT technology. Sensors are hardware devices which are used to track various parameters of environments and body. Sensors can be used in different ways to provide different applications. In healthcare industry, sensors are the key area of interest due to increased cost of healthcare. So with the help of these sensors and Arduino board we can make available health parameters of remote patient to doctor in real time. Using these sensors doctors can monitor health parameters (temp, heartbeat) of remote patient in real time. In the proposed system the patient health readings are continuously monitored using different sensors which are connected to the Arduino board. And the acquired data is send to the Cloud server using Wi-Fi shield present on the Arduino board. On cloud these data is processed and if any of the parameter values goes beyond the threshold value an alert will send to the doctor and relatives of patient. Keywords - Internet of Things (IOT), Arduino Board (Yun), Cloud, Sensor, Health parameters. I. INTRODUCTION Most of the developing countries have very big population and as compare to such population hospitals or medical clinics are very less. Some of these hospitals have poor healthcare infrastructure and not equipped with equipment that are required for the diagnosis of life threatening diseases. The health problem is rising along with increasing population in the today s world.in hospitals, continuous monitoring is needed for heart attack, after major/minor operation, temperature related illness, physical disorder. But the 24*7 manual monitoring of patient by doctors or nurses difficult and also leads to high cost. For elderly people who alone stay in home for long term monitoring without person is a complex situation. To overcome the situation without hospitalization for monitoring the patient using wearable sensor is used in this paper. There are wearable sensors available in the market which used in entertainment, security, medical field. Wearable sensors are attached on the human body for temperature, pressure, heart beat etc. This method reduces the health care cost of patient. To develop this project, we are using Arduino Yun for monitoring the patient.
After collecting the patient data will be send on cloud for processing purpose and if patient health parameters are greater than threshold value then doctors and relatives of patient will get alert message.[4] A. BACKGROUND Most monitoring systems that are in use in today s world works in offline mode but it are of great need that a system must be designed so that patient can be monitored remotely in real time. Now recently wireless sensors which can communicate over network using wireless sensor network(wsn) that plays important role in the development of various highperformance smart sensing system. Many new research is focused at improving quality of human life in terms of health by designing and fabricating sensors which are either in direct contact with the human body (invasive) or indirectly (non-invasive) in contact II. OBJECTIVES The main objective of project is to make available remote patient health readings to doctor. REMOTE ACCESS: Remotely monitoring several health parameters of patients like BP, heart beat and body temperature using wearable sensors. IOT IMPLAMENTAION: Transferring collected patient's information on cloud with the help of IOT and arduino tool and send this data to doctor to take decision. Cloud Database: Patient health parameters are greater than threshold value then doctors and relatives of patient will be alerted. Able to take decision to generate alert or inform doctor To observe the patient s health condition continuously III. PROCEDURE The process of IOT based Remote patient monitoring system is as follows: At the patient site, health parameter sensors and tools are attached to the patient and these sensors and tools are connected to Arduino board. Arduino board will collect patient health readings using patient monitoring sensors and tools e.g. temperature sensor, pulse sensor. Now Arduino board will upload patient readings on cloud using wifi shield. On cloud, data will be stored and processed and if health readings more than threshold values then doctor and patients will get alert message IV. IMPLAMENTATION
4.1 ARDUINO YUN BOARDS: Fig.1: Arduino Board The Arduino Yún board which has Atheros AR9331 and ATmega32u4 microcontroller. Linux distribution based on OpenWrt named Linino OS is supported by Atheros processor. The board has Ethernet and Wi-Fi support in built, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a micro USB connection, an ICSP header, and 3 reset buttons, a USB-A port, micro-sd card slot, 20 digital input/output pins (7 of them can be used as PWM outputs and 12 as analog inputs). 4.2 TEMPERATURE SENSOR: Fig.2: LM35 The LM35 series are precision integrated circuit. LM35 temperature sensors, whose output voltage is linearly proportional to the temperature in Celsius (Centigrade). LM35 sensor consists of 3 pins. As shown in fig2, 1 st pin is used for external power supply to LM35. LM35
can accept input voltage in the range of 4-20 volts. 2 nd pin provides output in the form of voltage. 4.3 PULSE SENSOR: Fig.3: pulse sensor Heart beat sensor provides heart bit readings when finger is placed on it.front side of pulse sensor contains heart logo. This is side to which contact of finger of patient must be placed in order to get heart bit readings. This digital output can be connected to Arduino directly to measure the Beats per Minute (BPM) rate. With each heart pulse, the detector signal varies which is converted to electrical pulse [3]. 4.4 CLOUD: In proposed system ThingSpeak public cloud is used for storing health readings. ThigSpeak cloud allows aggregating, visualizing and analyzing live data streams in the cloud. Arduino board will upload patient s health readings on ThingSpeak cloud. On Things speak health readings will be processed and if readings are greater than threshold values then ThingSpeak cloud service will send alert to doctor and relatives of patient. Doctors can also access the data stored on cloud.
Fig.4 Functional Diagram IV. CONCLUSION By using the system the healthcare professionals/doctors can monitor, diagnose, and advice their patients all the time. The health parameters data are stored on cloud. Hence, the healthcare professional can monitor their patients from a remote location at any time. Our system is simple. The Future work of the project is very essential in order to make the design system more advanced. In the designed system the enhancement would be connecting more sensors to internet which measures various other health parameters and would be beneficial for patient monitoring i.e. connecting all the objects to internet for quick and easy access. V. RESULTS
Fig:5 YUN Board with connected Pulse Sensor Fig:6 Expected Reading of Heart Rate REFERENCES [1] H. Alemdar, C. Ersoy. Wireless sensor networks for healthcare: A survey. Computer Networks 54.15 (2010): 26882710. [2] S. K. Dhar et al, Enabling Smartphone as Gateway to Wireless Sensor Network. Recent Advances in Information Technology, Springer, 2014, pp. 19-26 [3] Zigbee and GSM Based Patient Health Monitoring System, 2014 International Conference on Electronics and Communication System (ICECS-2014),Purnima, Puneet Singh [4]FUTURE SCOPE AND POSSIBILITIES IN INTERNET OF THINGS Faraz Khan Electrical Engineering Department, 1 Career Point University, Kota, Raj., India,Published in International Conference on Advances in Engineering Science and Management, Agra, 08th November, 2015 310 ISBN: 978-81-931974-0-0 T R Publication