Wireless Sensor Network Based Patient Health Monitoring and Tracking System
Hospitals need to be equipped with facilities and services to monitor the patients at all times. Due to large number of patients and limited number of doctors, it gets difficult for the doctors to visit each and every patient, and keep track of their impr
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Abstract Hospitals need to be equipped with facilities and services to monitor the patients at all times. Due to large number of patients and limited number of doctors, it gets difficult for the doctors to visit each and every patient, and keep track of their improving or deteriorating health condition. This paper presents the structure of an embedded system that could monitor and keep a track of the patients’ position and health condition at all times. It makes use of a Wireless Sensor Network of Xbee radios to acquire data, which is then saved in a local database of the central system and simultaneously, also uploaded on an online database to be made available for the doctors to access at all times. The system makes use of active RFID cards to track the position of the patients and along with it the data from the heart beat sensor is transmitted, for each patient separately.
Keywords Arduino Internet of things Wearable sensors Wi-Fi
Wireless sensor network
Xbee
Amitabh Yadav (&) Vivek Kaundal Abhishek Sharma Paawan Sharma Deepak Kumar Pankaj Badoni University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India e-mail: [email protected] Vivek Kaundal e-mail: [email protected] Abhishek Sharma e-mail: [email protected] Paawan Sharma e-mail: [email protected] Deepak Kumar e-mail: [email protected] Pankaj Badoni e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 R. Singh and S. Choudhury (eds.), Proceeding of International Conference on Intelligent Communication, Control and Devices, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 479, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1708-7_106
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1 Introduction The advancements in the wearable sensor technology have increased in the recent decades and it is also one of the most thriving areas of research. Often in mental care and healthcare hospitals, patients need to be continuously kept under observation. All their activities need to be kept as a record. For the patients suffering from sleep disorders such as somnambulism (sleepwalking), their movements need to be tracked at all times so that they may not reach any place where they may harm themselves. Similarly, in old age homes and hospitals; there is a need to keep a track of patients’ location, monitor their vital signs and maintain it in their records. Thus, there arises a need for a system to keep a track of movement of the patients, i.e., their location, and at the same time also keep a record of their condition at all times in the form of a database. Such a system also needs to be fully self-sufficient and provides the doctor with the ease of monitoring his patients irrespective of his presence in the hospital; thus, the data must be accessible from any place and at all times. For acquiring data from multiple sources (nodes) and arranging it together in a central system, it requires setting up of a weireless sensor network (WSN). The data is acquired on a central system, along with the information about the source o
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