Cost Effective Remote Health Monitoring System Based on IoT Using Arduino UNO

摘要

Remote health monitoring nowadays is seeking great attention among doctors, researchers, IT professionals and engineers. Internet of Things has marked its presence in various sectors like smart home, smart city, smart grid, agriculture, wearables and connected health. IoT is a powerful tool which can be utilized to develop healthcare systems. Remote health monitoring system in which a doctor can keep an eye over the patient’s vital parameters via internet is emerging in countries like Malaysia, USA and other developed countries. Remote health monitoring system is very useful and valuable to patients and society especially the senior citizens as it will cut down the cost of visits to their doctors, save time and efforts and most importantly reduce the traffic congestion at hospitals. The objective of the paper is to implement a system for monitoring body vital parameters like temperature, pulse rate using reliable sensors along with Arduino UNO and IoT. System is making the use of wearable sensors, interfaced to Arduino UNO. Since Arduino does not have inbuilt support for internet connectivity therefore, Ethernet shield is used to connect the whole system to internet. The body temperature and pulse rate of a person sensed by the sensors are sent to the cloud with the help of Ethernet shield and will also be displayed on the Blynk mobile application preinstalled on the android phone or ios. Data can be displayed in the form of graphs, tables b using by just drag and drop from the widgets already available in Blynk.