IoT Based Patient Monitoring System using Sensors to Detect, Analyse and Monitor Two Primary Vital Signs

• Main Authors: Abdullah M. (Author), Abdullah, S. (Author), Amirnazarullah, M.N (Author), Jafri, M.M (Author), Mohamad Hadis, N.S (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2020
• Subjects: Abnormal conditions; Android (operating system); Android apps; Body temperature; Conventional methods; Internet of things; Monitoring system; Nursing; Patient monitoring; Patient monitoring systems; Respiratory rate; Semiconductor materials; Standard measurements
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 This paper presents the development of patient monitoring system for two primary vital signs of body temperature and respiratory rate. The monitoring system was implemented in IoT platform and designed using Arduino Mega 2560 and ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module. Two sensor's modules used to determine each vital sign level, which each module use temperature sensors. The purposes of this project are to design patient monitoring system that can detect the vital signs level, analyse the level of vital signs according to the patient age, provide alert for abnormal condition and also displayed the results wirelessly through android apps. This project would minimize the work load for nurses in hospital and provide much convenient method in monitoring status of each vital signs for every patient in the ward. Conventional method which requires nurse to visit every patient to record vital signs measurement is time consuming. With this system, nurses can monitor the patient status through android apps installed into any android device. Nurses or doctors can also review the previous vital sign status by downloading the data from the cloud in the excel format. Comparison on the two vital signs level obtained from this system with standard measurement equipment or manual observation shown almost similar results. © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.