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I. INTRODUCTION
A. Overview of wireless e-heath monitoring system
The e-health monitoring system with wireless sensor network
is used for patient tele-monitoring and tele-medicine. In old
days transmitting biomedical signal from patients to hospital
was done through telephony network. Otherwise patient was
needed to be admitted in hospital for continues observation.
Today, wireless sensor network provide mobile telemedicine
which allows patients to engage their daily routines while they
are monitored continuously anytime, anywhere. In healthcare
application wireless sensor network small, lightweight sensors
are used to be placed on the patients body. Benefits of ehealth system are used for transmission of blood pressure,
heart beat rate, level of oxygen (SpO2), body temperature
from patient to a web server using GPRS. Potential
applications of wireless e-health system are remote routine
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GPRS
WEB
SERVER
B. Design Considerations
The aim is to introduce a new wireless e-health monitoring
system that comprise of a compact wrist worn device on
patient hand, network connected with web server and mobiles
via internet as shown in fig.1. Wrist worn device consists of
various sensors, microcontroller and GPRS kit. It allows the
transmission of any or all of the health parameters of patient
in every 15 sec to the web server. The parameters are: blood
pressure, body temperature, heat rate, and oxygen saturation.
The design of the wrist worn device is very flexible in nature,
so that future processing and memory upgrade can be
achieved simply by software changes. The hardware is
implemented with Win AVR complier that produce object
code in machine language are directly dumped into AT Mega
8 bit Microcontroller. Also multichannel analog-to-digital
(ADC) converts boost up the data signal for high bandwidth
second generation (2G) networks. The connection between
wrist worn device, web server and mobile uses the GPRS,
which allows bidirectional data transmission.
Php (Hypertext pre-processor) based Web server contain
MySql database, predication and graph generation logic.
Web application displays generated graph of all four medical
parameter of patients medical record. It also displays
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predication on patient health condition in future. Mainly it
consists of doctor message sending module.
C. Related Work
Number of different research projects explores wireless sensor
networks for monitoring patient health 24 hours. Few projects
are concerned with developing wearable wrist worn belt,
while others have developed based for monitoring individual
patients during daily activity, at home, or in hospital. Han and
Yuo et.al proposed wireless sensor network based e-health
system based on radio-active and radio-passive positioning [1].
Authors proposed wireless sensor network application for 24
hours constant monitoring without disturbing daily activities
of elderly people and their caretakers. In this system both
fixed and mobile body sensors are used. A mixed positing
algorithm is proposed to determine the location of elderly
person. The purpose of positing is to help the system to
determine the persons activities and further to make decisions
about patient health condition.
U. Anliker, J. A. Ward et.al has developed a wearable
medical monitoring and alert system aimed at people at risk
from heart and respiratory diseases [2]. The system combines
multiparameter measurement of vital signs, online analysis
and emergency detection, activity analysis, and cellular link to
a tele medicine centre in an unobtrusive wrist-worn device.
Mobile health monitoring system for the elderly, called
iCare, which can not only dynamically monitor the elderly
anytime anywhere and automatically alarm to the emergency
centre in the emergency situation, but also play a role in
acting as a living assistant[3]. At the same time, iCare also
acts as the personal health information system which allows
doctors to view current and history condition of the elderly,
set thresholds for sensors and give advices remotely, which is
the essential part for tele-monitoring of the elderly.
Additionally, the medical guidance that includes the
communication platform and the medical knowledge database
is designed to serves as the real-time medical guidance for the
elderly.
Novel wireless, ambulatory, real-time, and auto alarm
intelligent tele cardiology system to improve healthcare for
cardiovascular disease proposed by Chin-Teng Lin et.al [4].
This expert system can identify ve types of abnormal cardiac
rhythms in real-time, including sinus tachycardia, sinus
bradycardia, wide QRS complex, atrial brillation (AF), and
cardiac asystole. Novel intelligent telecardiology system is
capable of early atrial brillation detection, and represents a
successful rst step toward improving efficiency and quality
of care in cardiovascular disease.
Alexandros Pantelopoulos [5]et.al also present novel model
based on a fuzzy regular formal language to describe the
current state of health of the wireless health monitoring
system user, which considers symptom ambiguity and causal
relationships between various disorders and symptoms to
derive a thorough estimation with a certain degree of
condence .
Researcher at Taiwan have implemented and tested home
telecare system for combine biomedical data, including threechannel electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood pressure (BP),
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Multi-parameter
Monitoring
Real time
communications
Mobile health
monitoring
Predication
generation
All-in-one Wrist
worn system
Emergency
detection
Large medical
database
Remote analysis
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2) Real time communications: The gprs connection to the tele
medicine centre at web application features very flexible
communication channel that can use short message system
(SMS).
3) Mobile health monitoring: E-heath monitoring system
monitors patients in real time and if any collected values
exceed the predefined threshold then it send alert message to
doctor and family members.
4) Predication generation: If there is possibility of any unlike
situation in patient near future, this module gives predication
message to the doctor terminal. So that early detection will
helps the patients to avoid uncertainty in future.
5) All-in-one wrist worn system: This system combines all
sensors, microcontroller, communication, and processing
devices in a single wrist worn enclosure. Overhead of
mounting sensors over different location of human body is
totally reduced. So that sensor data are more accurate.
6) Emergency Detection: For emergency detection, the
analysis can incorporate patient profile and database to reduce
number of false alarms.
7) Large medical database and graph generation: All medical
history of patients is stored in database on web server and
displayed in the form of graph on doctor terminal. It helps
doctor in giving medical advice to patients.
8) Living Assistant and Medical guidance: Wrist worn device
have some auxiliary functions like displaying real time date
and time to assist patients in their daily life activities. This
system can offer online medical guidance.
9) Remote Analysis: The wrist worn device can perform an
analysis of all sensors collected data online and presenting
them in the form of graph to doctor terminal.
Main Contribution: The main contributions in this paper can
be summarized as follows:
System supporting wireless sensor network and Gprs
communication between patients wrist worn devices
and web server are implemented and tested.
Proposed
predication
generation
algorithm
automatically generates predication on patients
health in next 24hous. So that early precaution can be
taken to avoid any unusual situation in future.
Web based telemedicine and tele-monitoring system
is implemented which support many to one clientserver relationship between many patients and
centralized web server.
II. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
The aim of this study is to design and implement a wireless ehealth monitoring system for continuous monitoring vital
signs of patients and to facilitate telemedicine system to
mobile patients. The main aim of system is to generate
predication on patients health condition, so that early caution
can be taken to avoid dangers situation in future. Figure 3
shows the architecture of proposed system.
The system can be divided into 3 main parts:1) Tele-monitoring and Emergency detection system
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WEB SERVER
GPRS
PREDICATION
GENERATOR
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PATIENTS
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used to derive all the above information from wrist worn
sensors and need to maintain the power consumption to a
minimum level.
a) Blood Pressure Sensor:
To perform a measurement, we use a method called
oscillometric. The air will be pumped into the cuff to be
around 20 mmHg above average systolic pressure. After that
the air will be slowly released from the cuff causing the
pressure in the cuff to decrease. As the cuff is slowly deflated,
we will be measuring the tiny oscillation in the air pressure of
the arm cuff. The systolic pressure will be the pressure at
which the pulsation starts to occur. We will use the MCU to
detect the point at which this oscillation happens and then
record the pressure in the cuff. Then the pressure in the cuff
will decrease further. The diastolic pressure will be taken at
the point in which the oscillation starts to disappear.
b) Heart beat rate and SpO2 Sensor:
Heart rate is the number of heartbeats per unit of time and is
usually expressed in beats per minute (bpm). Normal heart
beats about 60 to 100 times a minute. This sensor Count the
number of pulses within a certain interval (say 15 sec), and
easily determine the heart rate in bpm as
bpm= (No. of Heart Beat /15s ) * 4
The measurement of oxygen level in blood is based on heart
beat rate of patient by the following formula.
SpO2 = (heart_beat * 11) / 10;
Working principal of heart beat rate sensor is:
This technique measure the heart rate by sensing the
change in blood volume in a finger artery while the
heart is pumping the blood.
It consists of an infrared LED that transmits an IR
signal through the fingertip, a part of which is
reflected by the blood cells.
The reflected signal is detected by a photo diode
sensor.
The changing blood volume with heartbeat results in
a train of pulses at the output of the photo diode, the
magnitude of which is too small to be detected
directly by a microcontroller.
Amplifiers are used to filter and amplify the signal to
appropriate voltage level so that the pulses can be
counted by a microcontroller.
c) Temperature Sensor:
Analog temperature sensor provides an output voltage
proportional to the temperature. Output can be directly fed to
the input of an analog to digital convertor for digital
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Case 2: Wrist worn system can support one way
communication in emergency situation between wrist
worn and doctor, caretakers mobiles.
Algorithm: The initial analysis starts with a comparison of
the blood pressure, SpO2, body temperature and Hear beat
rate with predefine values.
Based on the results of this analysis, four different scenarios
are possible.
Normal: It indicates that all medical parameters of
patient are fine.
Error: A re-measurement is performed.
Emergency Situation: If any one or all values are
diverted from predefined range, then wrist worn
device send alert message to doctor and caretakers
mobile.
The doctors then perform a detailed analysis of all data
further steps are taken.
B. Web Server: Php Server
Web server can stored all medical data of patients in MySql
database called Patients log. Php server runs predefined
medical algorithm called CHECK MEDICAL-PARAMETER
algorithm:ALGORITHM: CHECK MEDICAL-PARAMETER
Step 1: Receive patients parameters from the wrist worn
device.
Step2: Compare received patient medical values to predefined
Value, and assigns a risk factor accordingly.
Step 3: Prepare graph to reflect the patient health parameter.
Step 4: Auto generate the predication for patient health
condition in next 24 hours based on the average values
derived from the all values stored in patient database.
Step 5: If generated predication show high risk in future, then
only it send alert message to doctor to avoid any unusual
situation in future trough web Sms provider.
Step 6: At the same time, it display graph and predication
values on web application.
As shown in diagram this procedure is carried out
continuously for accurate results.
PATIENT WRIST
WEB SEVER
Database
Graph
Predication
Values
Abnormal Predication
Values
SMS
Display
Web SMS provider
WEB APPLICATION
Doctor message sending
window
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indicate emergency situation. Web server is also responsible
for displaying graph, predication logic on web application.
Client application is develop using C# and the server is
designed using Php language. Database is designed using
MySql. General packet radio services are used for wireless
connection between client and server.
The relationship between clients and server are described as
follows:a. Many to One (M: 1):
The wireless e-health
monitoring system connects more than one patients
wrist worn devices to the single php server at the
same time. Client application can send collected
patient medical data to the server.
Php Server
Database
Client
Patient-1
Patient-2
1: M
Tele Medicine
Centre
Doctor and
Caretakers
Patient-N
Fig. 8. Client Server Architecture for e-heath monitoring system
b.
c.
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V. CONCLUSION
A wireless health monitoring system is designed, developed
and tested and is found efficient and user friendly in all
aspects. We have developed a wearable patients monitoring
and alert system. The system combines measurement of vital
signs, online analysis and emergency detection, predication
and graph generation, sending of doctor message, sending of
web based predication messages and gprs connectivity
between wrist worn, web server, web application and mobiles.
A prototype of wrist worn device, web server, and
telemedicine centre has been implemented successfully.
REFERENCES
Web Client
1:1
M: 1
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