E-health Acquistion, Transmission & Monitoring System

Abstract

The main focus of the paper is to address an e-health acquisition, transmission and monitoring system. Patient health parameters are monitored by wireless sensor network and communicated to the far end through Zigbee interface. Data received at far end is monitored by MATLAB. If the parameters are abnormal it configures the GSM module to send SMS on doctor mobile phone. System implemented in this paper is made for such patients who are not in the critical state but they need to be monitored continuously. When the critical condition occurs, system will originate an alarming message and send it to the doctor. It is fast, less costly and monitors patient remotely from their homes.

Existing System

Patient Monitoring System Using GSM Technology.

Proposed System

The main focus of this paper is to describe the application of Zigbee as well as GSM in medical field. In this system, a specific gadget equipped with different sensors is given to patient. It will monitor the health parameters of the patient and keep on updating the values. When any specific parameter will rise above the threshold value, a warning message will be sent to the doctor. E-health monitoring system of a patient is useful for those patients, which are in their initial stage of disease. In this way they are observed and medicated in less costly way in their own home instead of hiring a room in the hospital and hiring a doctor for the regular observation continuously in the hospital. This scheme can be more improved if we add prescription in this project too. It means that we programmed our microcontroller in such a way that if it seems an alarming situation then neither it will alert the relatives/doctors but also prescribe the medicine that patient should take in that scenario. It will be then much more helpful for the patient and the caretaker too.

Architecture

BLOCK DIAGRAM