Improving health care with medical sensors integrated with internet of things (IOT)

Background: Patient who’s health condition is stable but needs to be monitored throughout the day enforced to stay at hospital, which is something uncomfortable and Psychologically annoying, but each day medicine and technology is being developed, so how can we help these patients in making life easier!. Objective: The goal of this project is to invest the internet by using IOT (internet of things)to provide alow-cost device that can monitor patient's vital signs and displaying the results on screen of the device near the patient in his home without the need to go to the hospital and sending real time results of patient health via Wi-Fi module to the “Thinger” platform which can be used by a doctor. Method: Design and development of an integrated device for measuring heart rate, SPO2, temperature and ECG signal using sensors (ECG electrodes are connected to ECG board AD8232, ds18b20 for measuring temperature, MAX30100 sensor for measuring SPO2 and heart rate). The system also has an alarm (LEDs on the “Thinger” platform), this will help the doctor to notify the abnormality in the patient vital signs measurements. The technology we used, which is IOT using ESP8266 Wi-Fi board have many advantages such as inexpensive price and unlimited distance the data can be sent, then the “Thinger” platform that provide so many features for displaying any type of data. Results: The data that was displayed at device’s screen and at IOT platform was an accurate real time data and fast alarm system in which the patient, his family and the doctor can feel safe about patient’s health. Conclusion: In this thesis, we presented the design and development of an integrated device for measuring heart rate, SPO2, temperature and ECG signal using sensors, for monitoring, displaying the results on the screen of the device near the patient in his home without the need to go to the hospitaland sending the results of patient health via Wi-Fi module to the internet cloud platform using IOT which can be used by a doctor. The system also has an alarm system to notify the doctor of the abnormality in the patient vital signs measurements. This device deserves to be known and applicable because of its low cost and its ability to provides easy reached information of patient for easy health care.