A Real Time Autonomous Soldier Health Monitoring and Reporting System Using COTS Available Entities

Perturbed by the numerous instances of soldiers going untraced in action or killed in action, this paper suggests a qualitative approach to render an aid to the defense services by ensuring the safety, whereabouts and dignity of army personnel. The proposed system enables to detect the pulse (heartbeat rate) and position of the army personnel whenever required, thus vouching that timely support is provided to the needy ones. The transmitter equipped with pulse sensor and GPS Module is programmed with certain conditions to examine the healthiness of the soldier and accordingly to communicate with the receiver at some remote location. This paper presents framework of the design by utilizing the IEEE 802.15.4 standard and multifarious wireless sensor networks. The initial performance of the system has been evaluated with two personal computers. Also, the real time functioning of this design encourages extending this mechanism for a wireless health monitor network for the masses.