ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We owe our deepest gratitude to the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering,IOE,PaschimanchalCampusfor providinguswithanopportunityto work on a Minor Project as a part of our syllabus. It is an honor for us to express our gratitude to our project supervisor Laxmi Prasad Bastola for providing us all support and guidance during the working phase.

We are thankful to and fortunate enough to get constant support, encouragement, and guidance from all our teachers for their suggestions and lectures that paved towards the completion of this project. Also, we would like to thank our colleagues for their valuable comments and their suggestions during this project. Any kind of suggestion or comment will be highly appreciated and acknowledged.

Abstract

Real-time health monitoring is very important for people suffering from critical illnesses. The need for this monitoring is even more profound for differently-abled people with such critical illnesses. Lack of proper monitoring and timely response can often lead to the death of such patients.

The project focuses on addressing this need by designing a portable and easy-to-use device that helps measure the vital health parameters of the patient and provides the result through the internet to anyone that is concerned with the patient’s health. The systemisdesignedtomonitorthevitalhealthsignofthepatientandallowthecaretakers to access those readings over the internet. The project aims to use the scope of IoT to enable caretakers to efficiently monitor the differently-abled patients even when they cannot be in direct physical contact with them.

The device allows the user to monitor the health status of the patient in a timely manner and take any actions that are required for their health benefit. We have tried to design the device to make it very easy to use so that even patients with severe physical limitations can use it with little or no assistance.

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The internet has become a vital component of daily life in the present age. The services provided by the internet have changed the way in which people carry out their daily activities. These services have enhanced the various sectors from education, transportation, entertainment, health among many others.

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is emerging as the next technology mega trend. Visualizing a world where several objects will sense, communicate and share data over a personal net protocol or public networks can be done through IoT. The interconnected objects collect the data at regular intervals, analyze and initiate needed action, providing associated intelligent networks for analyzing, designing and decision making.

This scope of IOT has been utilized to improve the accessibility and efficiency of health services in many ways. There is a growing number of people suffering from persistent diseases in many developing and under-developed countries. These patients require regular health check-upsandattention ofhealthpersonnelsin ashortperiod oftimeif theirhealthdeteriorates suddenly and rapidly. Chronic diseases are extremely variable in their symptoms, evolution and treatment. Some, if not monitored and treated early, will end the patient’s life. For several years the standard measure of glucose level, pressure level and heart beat was calculated in specialized health centers. Due to technological development, there is a great variety of running sensors giving important signs such as blood pressure cuff, glucometer and pulse monitor together with electrocardiogram, which permits the patient to take their vital signs daily.

By making use of these sensors and IOT, we are capable of accessing the major health parameters of the patients over the internet in real time. With the help of this technology, the doctors, caretakers or relatives can view the vital health readings even when they are not physically present with the patient. Whenever the parameters being checked go beyond the normal limits, the concerned people can immediately provide the assistance required by the patient.Thistechnologycanmaketakingcare ofpatientssufferingfromchronicdiseasesmuch easier and more economical. It is even more useful to help differently-abled patients with chronic conditions.

1.1. Background

Differently-abled people always have difficulties when they have to visit the hospitals. The necessity of portable devices that can help these people to get general checkups of vital health parameters has been well-founded for a long time. Most of the technologies providing these services are very expensive that simply puts the technology out of reach for patients in low-income countries.

1.2. Motivation

The major motivation for the project is to help the differently-abled patients to get the health updates from the comfort of their homes and also to help their caretakers to attend to them effectively even when they cannot be physically present with them. The exchange of information regarding vital parameters over the internet also helps to save valuable time incase of any emergenciesthat require urgent actiononthebasis oftheparameterreadings.

1.3. Problem of Statement

In the present scenario, no matter how critical or simple the condition of the patient's life is, they are obliged to go to the hospital. This has not only affected the lives of patients but also of their close ones which include their personal life, work-life, and their economic state. So, we are striving to create an environment where not only the burdens will lessen but also it will make the life of patients and their close ones easier.