Real time health monitoring and wireless transmission: A μController application to improve human medical needs

The delivery of cost-effective and quality emergency services remains an important challenge for the healthcare industry. This project demonstrates the feasibility of using flexible, and user-friendly equipment to inform others when user needs an emergency response. Early detection of emerging heart problems can allow medical interventions to reduce the impact and severity of heart-related incidents. This technology presents a combination of mobile communication with data transmission through Wi-Fi. It integrates hardware and software engineering for heart monitoring at a low cost and ease to use at home. Herein, we describe a scalable emergency medical response system that couples the efficient data collection of a pulse sensor with internet data transmission plus distance monitoring data with the flexibility and interoperability of GSM / GPS / Wi-Fi service architecture with no need of suppliers. It is proven that in most of the cases users can significantly improve their safety feeling by using such device.