Smart Health Monitoring System For The Elderly
Prabha. P Lakshmi, Haritha Nair, Nehaa Pravin, Adwaith Sreedher · 2022
Smart health monitoring device provide improved health management and monitoring, and they also give doctors measured medical data for quicker patient diagnosis and better treatment planning. The project's goal is to create a working prototype for geriatric health monitoring using various sensors and sent alert messages to doctors and family members in the event of abnormal vital signs. The sensors used in this smart health monitoring system include a heartbeat sensor, a GSR for stress detection, a temperature sensor, an accelerometer sensor for fall detection as well as for step counting, alone with these sensor GPS Tracker, Arduino Nano, node MCV, and a display are used. Arduino receives data from the sensors and through node MCV these sensor values from the Arduino are transmitted. The sensor values are subsequently stored in the cloud by the node MCV after the data transfer. These values can also be visualized as graphs using MATLAB on the cloud platform Thing Speak. The results obtained with this monitoring device were accurate vitals measurements that were successfully coded to send out alert messages during abnormal ranges of parameters (smart monitoring), and the vitals graph was visualized on the Thing Speak platform. The device's size is larger than that of a wearable device, so it must be fitted inside a smaller enclosure for the patients' comfort in order for them to continuously monitor their health by wearing the device at all times. Nonetheless, an improved version of this work could help the patients experience comfortable monitoring and management of their health at ease.