Vital Signs Monitoring System in Cloud Environment

Abstract

This paper intends to look into the advent of a technological systems that recently emerged in telemedicine and healthcare domain. Specifically, the paper proposes a Vital Signs Monitoring System VSMS that can be used to control and monitor vital signs of patients such as blood pressure, body temperature, and heart rate pulse. The main purpose of this proposed system is to keep all patients under 24 hour monitoring and be able to alert the staff in case of any abnormalities. The system is built on distributed control system (DCS) architecture. The paper covers three main areas. First, it proposes the system architecture and its subsystems in detail along with all functions. Second, it discusses data historians, which is how to store and handle the aggregated “Big Data” that resulted from continuous monitoring. Finally, how and why this system is handled and built on cloud-based computing environment.