Title :
Patient health monitoring based on ZigBee module
Author :
Deepa, A. ; Kumar, P. Nirmal
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Anna Univ., Chennai, India
Abstract :
Monitoring the health of patients continuously is a big task for doctors. The design and development of a ZigBee smart noninvasive Wearable monitoring device plays a major role in measuring the physiological parameters such as temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, patient´s movement. The system consists of an electronic device which is worn on the wrist or finger of an at-risk person. It consists of several sensors which measures different vital signs that are to be measured during emergency. An impact sensor has been used to detect falls. Wireless sensing units integrate wireless communications with transducers to deliver a sensor platform. The device detects if a person is medically distressed and sends an alarm to a receiver unit that is connected to a remote computer. The care taker gets alerted and takes the remedy according to the situation. Here results are obtained using LabView software.
Keywords :
Zigbee; biomedical transducers; blood pressure measurement; body sensor networks; cardiology; medical computing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; temperature measurement; virtual instrumentation; LabView software; ZigBee module; ZigBee smart noninvasive wearable monitoring device; at-risk person; blood pressure measurement; care taker alert; electronic device; emergency; fall detection; heart rate measurement; impact sensor; monitoring device design; monitoring device development; patient health monitoring; patient medical distress detection; patient movement measurement; physiological parameter measurement; remote computer receiver unit; sensor platform delivery; temperature measurement; transducer; vital sign measurement; wireless communication; wireless sensing unit; Blood Pressure Measurement; Heart Rate Measurement; Physiological parameters; ZigBee;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Imaging Sensor and Security (ICOSS), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coimbatore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0935-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICOISS.2013.6678411