IoT augmented health monitoring system

Abstract

Objectives: Post hospitalization care of a patient treated for critical illness, for instance cardiac arrest has been regarded as imperative. Nevertheless, it has become inevitable to skip follow-ups by the patients themselves. Method: This paper aims at designing a system which continuously monitors the health of the patient despite the patient being busy with his routine. An application is developed on android platform combined with Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor devices. Health of patient will be monitored by sensors and data from sensors will be sent to cloud which can be accessed anytime by the doctor and/or caretaker both in the cloud and application for necessary follow-ups in real time. Findings: In order to find the health of a patient more parameters are needed. But the main parameter for identifying the health of a patient are heart rate and temperatures. More parameters can be added to the system developed. Improvements/Applications: More sensors can be added to the system and the system has many application scenarios such as family health care.