IRJET- Health Monitoring system using IoT

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Health Monitoring system using IoT
Shivleela Patil1, Dr. Sanjay Pardeshi2
1Student, Electronics and telecommunication department, Rajarambapu institute of technology, Sangli, India
2Professor, Electronics and telecommunication department, Rajarambapu institute of technology, Sangli, India
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Abstract - Health has prime importance in our day-to-day
life. Sound health is necessary to do the daily work properly.
This project aims at developing a system which gives body
temperature and heart rate using LM35 and pulse sensor
respectively. These sensors are interfaced with controller
Arduino uno board. Wireless data transmission done by
Arduino through wifi module.ESP8266 is used for wireless
data transmission on IoT platform i.e. thing speak. Data
visualization is done on Thing speak. So that record of data
can be stored over period of time .This data stored on web
server so that it can seen to who logged.
Keywords—Health monitoring system, controller, pulse
sensor, temperature sensor, IOT
I. INTRODUCTION
In the recent years wirelesstechnologyhasincreasingfor
the need of upholding various sectors .In these recent years
IoT graped the most of industrial area specially automation
and control. Biomedical is one of recent trend to provide
better health care. Not only in hospitalsbut alsothepersonal
health caring facilities are opened by the IoT technology. So
having a smart system variousparameters areobservedthat
consumes power, cost and increase efficiency .In according
to this smart system , this paper is reviewed.
In traditional method, doctors play an important role in
health check up. For this process requires a lot of time for
registration, appointment and then check up. Also reports
are generated later. Due to this lengthy process working
people tend to ignore the checkups or postpone it. This
modern approach reducestime consumption inthe process.
In the recent years use of wireless technology is
increasing for the need of upholding varioussectors.Inthese
recent years IoT groped the most of industrial area specially
automation and control. Biomedical is one of recent trends
to provide better health care. Not only in hospitals but also
the personal health care facilities are opened by the IoT
technology. So having a smart system, various parameters
are observed that consume power, cost and increase
efficiency .In accordance with this smartsystem,thispaperis
reviewed.[3]
Medical scientists are trying in the field ofinnovationand
research since many decades to get better health services
and happiness in human lives.
Their contribution in medical area is very important to
us and cannot be neglected. Today’s automotive structures
have the root ideas coming from yesterday’s basics. Also
Early detection of chronic diseases can be easy with these
technology.[4]
The body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure,
respiration rate are prime parameters to diagnose the
disease. This project givestemperature andheartratevalues
using IoT.
II. MOTIVATION
In rural hospitals, the facilities for health caring are
limited. The poor quality of health management enables
issues in health care system Everyone should get the
knowledge of own health as easy and early as possible. Also
it should be worth for each .Latest report of The India Spend
analysis of data says that the 500,000 doctors shortage in
India. WHO defines the doctor patient ratio will be 1:1000
which has been failed in India.
In developing countries there is lack of resources and
management to reach out the problems of individuals. A
common man cannot afford the expensiveanddailycheckup
for his health. For this purpose various systems which give
easy and assured caring unit has been developed. Theses
system reduces time with safely handled equipment.
III. RELATED WORK
Modern health care system introduces new
technologies like wearable devices or cloud of things. It
providesflexibility in termsof recording patientsmonitored
data and send it remotely via IOT. For this connection, there
is need of secure data transmission .To transmit the data
with privacy is the Moto of this paper. The proposed system
introduces security of health care and cloud of things
.System worksin two major parts viz. storage stage and data
retrieving stage. In storage stage, data is stored, updated for
future use. In data retrieving stage, retrieve data fromcloud.
The cloud server can share with authenticated user as per
request. A patient with wearable devicescontinuallyupdates
his record every 5 or 10 min. In emergency mode, it updates
for every 1min.The wearied device willsendresultstophone
using Bluetooth connection or NFC technology. Thiscanable
to give to cloud server using GSM and 3G.
At cloud server, each patient is defines with unique
address. So data at cloud can authenticate the right patient
and provide the required request.[1]
Telemonitoring system via WBANisevolvingforthe
need for home based mobile health and personalized
medicine. WBAN can able to collect the data acquired from

sensor and record the output. This output results sent to
controller wirelessly to health monitoring system. In this
paper, Zigbee is used to in WBAN technology due to its
guaranteed delay requirement for health telemonitoring
system. Zigbee used in the communication.[2]
Afef Mdhaffar, Tarak Chaari, Kaouthar Larbi,
Mohamed Jmaiel and Bernd Freisleben has explained low
power WAN network to perform analysis of monitored data
in health caring system. They have established WAN
network for communication upto the range of 33m2 at
around 12 m altitude. Also they have demonstrated that
power consumed by LoRaWAN network is ten times less
than the GPRS/3G/4G.The IOT architecture has been given
for step wise working for understanding of IOT .The main
purpose of LoRaWAN is the energy consumption.Thepower
consumption in idle mode for LoRaWAN is 2.8mA while in
GPRS is 20mA.Hardware cost in LoRaWAN is 10doller while
in GPRS is 50 dollar. Maximum data rate in LoRaWAN is
50kbps (uplink), 50 kbps downlink while in GPRS is 86.5
kbps(uplink ,14kbps(downlink).These results gives the
overall efficiency of LoRaWAN in the demonstration of IOT
for health monitoring system. [5]
Mohammad M. Masud, Mohamed Adel Serhani, and
Alramzana Nujum Navaz had given the measurementofECG
signals at various intervals and at different situations. They
have considered energy aware, limited computingresources
and lose network continuity challenges .For these
challenges; mathematical model has been developed to
execute each task sequentially. There are three approaches
designed to work out the process .One is mobile based
monitoring approach, data mining and third is machine
learning approach [6]
Ayush Bansal , Sunil Kumar, Anurag Bajpai, Vijay N.
Tiwari, Mithun Nayak, Shankar Venkatesan, Rangavittal
Narayanan focuses on development of a system which is
capable of detecting critical cardiac events. Using an
advanced remote monitoring system to detect symptoms
which lead to fatal cardiac events [7]
Hamid Al-Hamadi and Ing-Ray Chen gives trust
based health IOT protocol that considers risk classification,
reliability trust, and loss of health probability as design
dimensions for decision making. Comparative analysis of
trust based protocol and baseline protocols te check
feasibility.[8]
Muthuraman Thangaraj Pichaiah PunithaPonmalar
Subramanian Anuradha .”Digitalhospital”termisintroduced
for hospital management. It enables automatic electronic
medical records in standard. Also discusses with the
implemented real world scenario of smart autonomous
hospital management with IOT.[9]
Table 1: Comparison of sensors and technology
used [1,7,5,6,9]
Sr.
No
Title of Paper Sensors
used
Technology
used
1
1
Internet Of Things
(IOT) Enabled
Smart Autonomous
Hospital
Management
System – A Real
World Health Care
Use Case with the
TechnologyDrivers
Various
types of
sensors
used
Digital
Hospital
2
2
Remote health
monitoring system
for detecting
cardiac disorders
12-lead
ECG
probe
Mobilebased
algorithm
deployment
,Bluetooth
sensor
device
3
3
IoT-based Health
Monitoring via
LoRaWAN
B.P,
Temp.,
glucose
LoRa
network
4
4
Resource-Aware
Mobile-Based
Health Monitoring
ECG
sensor
ECG
processing
analytics
module
5
5
Internet Of Things
(IOT) Enabled
Smart Autonomous
Hospital
Management
System–A Real
World Health Care
Use Case with
TechnologyDrivers
ECG,EKG IoT enabled
data
modeling
IV. SYSTEM AND OVERVIEW
A. Objective
 To develop health monitoring system i.e. it
measures body temperature and heart rate.
 To design a system to store the patient data over a
period of time using database management.
 To do analysis of collected data of sensors.

B. Block Digram
Fig 1: Block diagram of system
Fig 1 shows the proposed system .The health monitoring
sensors are used to collect health related data i.e. for data
acquisition. Communication can be done by controller for
sending data on internet wirelessly. Data processing has
been done at server. All data collected and aggregated at
server point. To get health related information in
understandable format it can be shown on web page i.e.data
management.
Fig 2: Working of system
Fig 2 shows the working flow of system. The results
collected from sensor are analyzed i.e. if abnormal behavior
hasbeen detected , then emergency plan activatedtoinform
the Doctor about patient’s health .So it reduces critical
conditions in Hospital.
C. Components Used
Table 2 gives the modules used in the system and their
required specification. Following
1) Arduino uno:
Arduino uno is microntroller based on ATMega
328.Simulation is done on Arduino IDE software. The
ATmega 16U2 providesserial data tothemainprocessorand
has a built-in USB peripheral. Arduino Uno power cable
Standard A-B USB cable.It has 14 digital I/O pins.
2) Temperature Sensor:
LM35 sensor is used for measurement of body
temperature. Sensor is put in contact with bodyanditsenses
body temperature. It is calibrated linearly in Celsius. It has
low self heating capability. Also id doesn’t require external
calibration.
3) Pulse Sensor:
Pulse sensor is designed to give analog output of heart
beat when a finger is placed on sensor. It starts working;
LED on top side will starts blinking with each heart beat. To
see the sensor output, output pin of sensor is connected to
controller .The working principle of sensor is based on light
modulation by blood flow through nerves at each heart
pulse.
Table 2: Specification of System [10]
Module Item Specification
Controller Operating voltage,
digital pins, Flash
memory
5V,
14,32 KB
Temperatur
e sensor
Temperature range,
power, output
impendance
-55C to 150C,4-
30V,0.1W for
1mA load
Pulse sensor LED, gain, Power Infrared
LED,100,3.3V
Wifi module Power ,boud rate
,range
3.3V,9600BPS,
Up to 10m
LCD Power, display 5V,plasma
display
4) Wifi Module:
The ESP8266 wifi module is a self contained SOC
with incorporated TCP/IP protocol stack that can offer any
controller access to wifi network. It uses 802.11 b/g/n
protocols. Standby power consumption is less than 0.1mW.
5) IoT Platform:
a) Use the Thinkspeak platform to send data to the
cloud from any Internet-enabled device.
b) You can then configure actionsandalertsbasedon
your real-time data and unlock the value of your data
through visual tools.

c) Use the Think speak offers a platform for
developers that enable them to easily capture sensors data
and turn it into useful information.
D) Results
Fig 3 shows the interfacing of controller to sensors & LCD.
Fig 3: Interfacing of LCD and sensors with Arduino
Fig 4: Setup of System
Fig 4 shows the Output on LCD of pulse sensor and
temperature sensor.
Fig 5: Simulation of system on Arduino IDE
Fig 5 is the simulation window of Arduino IDE of program.
Fig 6 gives parameters that is temperature and pulse rate is
shown online on IOT platform.
Fig 6: Graphs of sensor output
Acknowledgement
The author would like to thank to department of electronics
and telecommunication for providing various test
components and Dr.S.A.Pardeshi for guiding about project.
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