1Assistant Professor, EIED, Thapar University, Patiala, India
2Research Scholar, EIED, Thapar University, Patiala, India
*Corresponding author: Mandeep Singh Assistant Professor, EIED, Thapar University, Patiala, India, E-mail: mdsingh@thapar.edu
Online published on 21 July, 2018.
Remote health monitoring systems have started to become one of the main building blocks of modern healthcare systems. It offers innovative and better ways to monitor chronic diseases or detect early deterioration, especially in case of patients, old people and infants. It acquires physiological signals using sensors and wirelessly transmits them to a remote healthcare station where they are monitored. This paper presents the design and development of a health monitoring system using a 16 bit microcontroller that monitors vital parameters namely heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature and body orientation. MSP430 based microcontroller acts as the data acquisition unit interfaced with orientation sensor and the Bluetooth chip, tied around the upper arm of the patient. An elastic chest belt houses the sensors for body temperature and respiration rate. The pulse sensor is worn either on the index finger or the ear. The data is then transferred from the board to a nearby laptop or mobile phone via Bluetooth where the data is stored and displayed graphically.
Wireless monitoring, orientation, physiology parameters, healthcare system, wearable embedded system
