Smart wireless healthcare monitoring for drivers community

Smart healthcare monitoring systems have been given more attention in recent research efforts as they are not only used for patients but also recommended for old age people, sports persons, drivers´ community and home makers. For example, smart healthcare support is introduced in some expensive cars like Mercedes-Benz. In developing countries like India, some road accidents may happen due to driver´s poor health condition like heart stroke while driving, over stress due to continuous work, etc. Hence, if a smart healthcare monitoring system is available at an affordable cost, it can be used for drivers´ community to take some preventive measures, thus road accidents may be reduced. In this work, a healthcare monitoring system is designed to monitor the health status periodically and abnormal values are informed to both transport office and healthcare provider. The primary function of the system is to monitor a driver´s physiological parameters such as, pulse rate, body temperature, etc., using sensors and transferred to a Smartphone using Bluetooth communication. Then, the proposed healthcare application in a Smartphone verifies the criticality. If there is any significant difference with normal value details are communicated to both healthcare service providers and transport office via cellular networks. Healthcare professionals take necessary action using ambulance service and Transport Corporation ensures driver´s health status or arranges an alternative driver. The proposed system prototype is implemented and tested in our Network Lab.