Intelligent Health Monitoring Using Internet of Things

Wireless medical sensor nodes are designed to include medical sensors to monitor human body conditions and store this information in memory. It will then be processed and analyzed. The sensors deployed on the human body mainly monitor body temperature, heartbeat, blood pressure, electrocardiogram and pulse oximetry. They send this information to a remote location for processing and a medical doctor can use these recorded readings to determine the condition of an individual or a patient. The data could be monitored on a regular basis that will help the doctor to be aware of the patients’ status at specific instants of time [1].

The IoT has evolved as a smart ubiquitous framework of smart objects and is capable of hosting a diverse set of application realms such as business enterprises, health care, educational and social organizations, etc. This research is an attempt to utilize the IoT technologies to monitor health related issues in various health care centers, perform personal health monitoring of clinical patients, elderly patients care, chronic patients monitoring, clinical data collection regularly, children monitoring in order to keep them away from coming across insecure situations at home and patient monitoring in catastrophe situations. The research will also address current critical areas where growth of electrical simulators for accelerating bone development and electrical brain monitoring. These promote rehabilitation of patients with traumatic injuries using electrical simulators to accelerate bone growth. In addition, the research will use all the data generated from the monitoring phase to analyze, visualize and predict the various results. The analysis could be possibly used to study and understand the health status of patients living in the society so as to benefit them and help them to improve their health conditions and aid for building up of health-conscious attitude so that they realize the advantages of maintaining their fitness.

The idea of health monitoring using IoT needs a specific sensor which could be present or attached on various smart objects to connect to the large network of IoT. This connection will enable the sensor to send the essential medical data of the patients onto the remote objects spread within the area. The remote objects could be any smart electronic device that use medium of transfer of information as light waves or radio waves or motion energy.

Due to the use of IoT, the internet will transform medical systems allowing improved on spot and transitional patient care [2]. This research will use the framework of IoT to collect a patient’s medical history and store it on internet or cloud server represented as medical records. Thus, the doctors can diagnose and suggest treatment for the patients either online or well before patient’s arrival at the hospital. This research paper discusses about the strategies to attain integration of IoT based smart devices and services with smart healthcare services and will completely revolutionize the health care systems field.

Keywords: Internet of things; Electronic health records; Health informatics; Data Collection; Data visualization; Wireless medical sensor nodes