OpenThread Based Mesh Enabled IoT Smart Device Cluster for Health Monitoring of the Elderly in Old Age Homes
Ambresh G. Biradar, Shubhang Johari, Samarth S. Kulkarni, Ameya Maheshwari, Katam Venkatesh · 2020
In this paper the primary motivation is to continuously monitor the health vitals of elderly in old age homes. In old age homes, the elderly residents generally have health issues, and it is critical to monitor their vitals in real time. In this regard, the development of an OpenThread based mesh system was carried out. The OpenThread mesh system of connected devices in which nodes were represented using Particle Xenon and Particle Argon which also doubled up as a capillary gateway/access point. All the nodes continuously monitored the bpm/pulse of the person and the data was communicated to the cloud client directly via capillary gateway. If a particular node was not in direct range of the capillary gateway, then the data which would hop over other nodes until it reached the capillary gateway. An android application was developed to fetch the data from the cloud database and display it in real-time. This application was developed such that an abnormal bpm value would trigger the application to notify an alert Message. A medication reminder is also implemented in the application to remind the residents when to take their medication.