scholarly journals A survey on instantaneous data transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring

Author(s):  
THIRUKRISHNA JT ◽  
Aishwarya M V ◽  
Mansi Singh ◽  
Mounisha B ◽  
Naksha Kaveri

Abstract Real time health monitoring using WSN of imbed and wearable sensors is visualized as a continual monitoring solution of bedridden outpatient with motility. This paper aims to implement an instantaneous patient monitoring framework, which is proficient in collecting, transmitting and monitoring patient’s perceptual conditions. In present Health monitoring frameworks, the patients are supervised by medical professionals using various equipment’s which are hardwired to nearby bedside monitors or PCs, and essentially this equipment’s are substantial and consequently it keeps patients confine to bed. The drawbacks of these frameworks may affect the patient’s mobility during monitoring the vital signs. Our proposed real time health monitoring framework can detect patient’s health conditions like pulse rate, body temperature and electrocardiograph using different bio sensors, the collected data will be processed using ARM7LPC2148 and the processed data is efficiently transferred wirelessly to LabVIEW software via ZigBee. In case of abnormalities, the SMS will be sent to doctor’s/care givers using GSM. In addition, the proposed framework uses ZigBee technology since it is low cost and achieves low power usage to maximize the network lifetime, accelerate and expand transmission protocols and also battery life is significantly improved. This framework will help patients to recover easily and also provides enhanced medical care to patients at a low cost. Furthermore, the framework provides profitable benefits for virtually monitoring individuals living away from the remote areas, old individuals, heart patients and can be used for COVID-19 patients in home and hospitals thereby improving medical administrations.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Alexandre dos Santos Gonsalves ◽  
Robson Augusto Siscoutto

The health monitoring system has become indispensable in the treatment of patients, especially for those who have chronic illnesses and need real-time observation from doctors and specialists. This article presents a low-cost wireless solution for monitoring, in real time, vital signs such as cardiac beats, breathing and blood pressure, collecting and sending data to a remote computer. During development, a wireless sensor box was created, using Arduino Nano and bluetooh sensors, where this box is attached to the patient's body, respecting the patient's flexibility and mobility during physical exercises. During the monitoring, the captured data is transmitted via the bluetooh network. The box uses a battery for its food. After the evaluation, the solution obtained a performance and correctness of the data close to 100%, being considered fit for use. Several experiments were carried out to analyze, quantify and qualify the solution, being discussed and presented in this paper.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priyanka Kakria ◽  
N. K. Tripathi ◽  
Peerapong Kitipawang

Online telemedicine systems are useful due to the possibility of timely and efficient healthcare services. These systems are based on advanced wireless and wearable sensor technologies. The rapid growth in technology has remarkably enhanced the scope of remote health monitoring systems. In this paper, a real-time heart monitoring system is developed considering the cost, ease of application, accuracy, and data security. The system is conceptualized to provide an interface between the doctor and the patients for two-way communication. The main purpose of this study is to facilitate the remote cardiac patients in getting latest healthcare services which might not be possible otherwise due to low doctor-to-patient ratio. The developed monitoring system is then evaluated for 40 individuals (aged between 18 and 66 years) using wearable sensors while holding an Android device (i.e., smartphone under supervision of the experts). The performance analysis shows that the proposed system is reliable and helpful due to high speed. The analyses showed that the proposed system is convenient and reliable and ensures data security at low cost. In addition, the developed system is equipped to generate warning messages to the doctor and patient under critical circumstances.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Gu ◽  
Xiang Zhang ◽  
Huan Yan ◽  
Zhi Liu ◽  
Fuji Ren

High-quality sleep is essential to our daily lives, and real-time monitoring of vital signs during sleep is beneficial. Current sleep monitoring solutions are mostly based on wearable sensors or cameras, the former is worse for sleep quality, the latter is worse for privacy, dissimilar to such methods, we implement our sleep monitoring system based on COTS WiFi devices. There are two challenges need to be overcome in the system implementation process: First, the torso deformation caused by breathing/heartbeat is weak, how to effectively capture this deformation? Second, movements such as turning over will affect the accuracy of vital signs monitoring, how to quickly distinguish such movements? For the former, we propose a motion detection capability enhancement method based on Rice-K theory and Fresnel theory. For the latter, we propose a sleep motion positioning algorithm based on regularity detection. The experimental results indicated the performance of our method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 155892502097726
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Zhiqiang Pang ◽  
Ling Peng ◽  
Fei Hu

Performing real-time monitoring for human vital signs during sleep at home is of vital importance to achieve timely detection and rescue. However, the existing smart equipment for monitoring human vital signs suffers the drawbacks of high complexity, high cost, and intrusiveness, or low accuracy. Thus, it is of great need to develop a simplified, nonintrusive, comfortable and low cost real-time monitoring system during sleep. In this study, a novel intelligent pillow was developed based on a low-cost piezoelectric ceramic sensor. It was manufactured by locating a smart system (consisting of a sensing unit i.e. a piezoelectric ceramic sensor, a data processing unit and a GPRS communication module) in the cavity of the pillow made of shape memory foam. The sampling frequency of the intelligent pillow was set at 1000 Hz to capture the signals more accurately, and vital signs including heart rate, respiratory rate and body movement were derived through series of well established algorithms, which were sent to the user’s app. Validation experimental results demonstrate that high heart-rate detection accuracy (i.e. 99.18%) was achieved in using the intelligent pillow. Besides, human tests were conducted by detecting vital signs of six elder participants at their home, and results showed that the detected vital signs may well predicate their health conditions. In addition, no contact discomfort was reported by the participants. With further studies in terms of validity of the intelligent pillow and large-scale human trials, the proposed intelligent pillow was expected to play an important role in daily sleep monitoring.


IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 37269-37323 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Albahri ◽  
O. S. Albahri ◽  
A. A. Zaidan ◽  
B. B. Zaidan ◽  
M. Hashim ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arka Ghosh ◽  
David John Edwards ◽  
M. Reza Hosseini ◽  
Riyadh Al-Ameri ◽  
Jemal Abawajy ◽  
...  

PurposeThis research paper adopts the fundamental tenets of advanced technologies in industry 4.0 to monitor the structural health of concrete beam members using cost-effective non-destructive technologies. In so doing, the work illustrates how a coalescence of low-cost digital technologies can seamlessly integrate to solve practical construction problems.Design/methodology/approachA mixed philosophies epistemological design is adopted to implement the empirical quantitative analysis of “real-time” data collected via sensor-based technologies streamed through a Raspberry Pi and uploaded onto a cloud-based system. Data was analysed using a hybrid approach that combined both vibration-characteristic-based method and linear variable differential transducers (LVDT).FindingsThe research utilises a novel digital research approach for accurately detecting and recording the localisation of structural cracks in concrete beams. This non-destructive low-cost approach was shown to perform with a high degree of accuracy and precision, as verified by the LVDT measurements. This research is testament to the fact that as technological advancements progress at an exponential rate, the cost of implementation continues to reduce to produce higher-accuracy “mass-market” solutions for industry practitioners.Originality/valueAccurate structural health monitoring of concrete structures necessitates expensive equipment, complex signal processing and skilled operator. The concrete industry is in dire need of a simple but reliable technique that can reduce the testing time, cost and complexity of maintenance of structures. This was the first experiment of its kind that seeks to develop an unconventional approach to solve the maintenance problem associated with concrete structures. This study merges industry 4.0 digital technologies with a novel low-cost and automated hybrid analysis for real-time structural health monitoring of concrete beams by fusing several multidisciplinary approaches into one integral technological configuration.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Gu ◽  
Xiang Zhang ◽  
Huan Yan ◽  
Zhi Liu ◽  
Fuji Ren

High-quality sleep is essential to our daily lives, and real-time monitoring of vital signs during sleep is beneficial. Current sleep monitoring solutions are mostly based on wearable sensors or cameras, the former is worse for sleep quality, the latter is worse for privacy, dissimilar to such methods, we implement our sleep monitoring system based on COTS WiFi devices. There are two challenges need to be overcome in the system implementation process: First, the torso deformation caused by breathing/heartbeat is weak, how to effectively capture this deformation? Second, movements such as turning over will affect the accuracy of vital signs monitoring, how to quickly distinguish such movements? For the former, we propose a motion detection capability enhancement method based on Rice-K theory and Fresnel theory. For the latter, we propose a sleep motion positioning algorithm based on regularity detection. The experimental results indicated the performance of our method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Niharika Gogoi ◽  
Zixuan Yu ◽  
Yichun Qin ◽  
Jens Kirchner ◽  
Georg Fischer

Human gait analysis is a growing field of research interest in medical treatment, sports training and structural health monitoring. In our study, we propose a low-cost insole design with wearable sensors based on piezoelectric discs (PZT) and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to acquire the human gait. The sensors are placed at three points of a shoe sole: toe, metatarsal and heel. The human gait obtained from such an insole layout is significantly affected by plantar pressure distribution and alignment of the feet. The PZT sensors give an insight into the pressure map under the feet, and the IMUs record projection and orientation of the feet.


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