Abstract:
Increase in the usage of wearable sensor nodes and advanced communication helps to progress
diagnostic methodology in improving the quality of human life. Virtual monitoring of patients through
wearable sensors nodes can avail the services of experts to the region with scarcity of medical facility hence
medical services in those areas can be enhanced. The medical facility available to rural India is considerably
lacking certain amenities. The Conventional practice of medicine and healthcare is mostly heuristic driven
Knowledge of regular monitoring of vital health parameter helps the patients to take precautionary
measure at the early stage. Medical App is necessary to avail quality services of IoT. The proposed system
has three major basic blocks. The first being body sensor sensing the data from the body, second is sending
data to cloud and the last part is to provide the data to an expert using designed APIs. The placement of
sensor nodes on human body and selection of communication protocol plays an important role in designing
the system. Sensors placed on the body are noninvasive sensors they collect the vital parameters. Sensors
used in this research are body temperature sensor, blood glucose sensor, blood pressure and
Electrocardiogram sensor (ECG) Sensor node records the data and transmits it to the cloud using
coordinator node. The communication between body coordinator node and the cloud is established using
ESP-8266 Wi-Fi Module. Data received is stored in Thing speak Cloud. The user friendly application
programming interfaces (APIs) helps to provide early assistance of the doctor. The APP designed at the
destination point can view the parameter of the patient and communicate message to the patient or user
about the status of the health parameter, prescribe the medicine, sends an alert message during critical
condition and provides with assistance. Research finds to develop low cost user friendly health monitoring
application to receive the information from the patients and recommend appropriate service at the early
stage of diagnosis.
