Wireless Patient Monitoring

ABSTRACT 

Recently, the health care sensors are playing a vital role in hospitals. The patient monitoring systems is one of the major improvements because of its advanced technology. A wireless patient monitoring system to measure heartbeat, body temperature and movement of the hand of patient by using embedded technology is developed. Therefore, in our project we are using a temperature sensor, heartbeat sensor and an accelerometer i.e. movement sensor so that we can simultaneously monitor the patient’s physiological condition who is admitted to a hospital emergency. This project describes the design of a simple, micro-controller based heart rate, body temperature and body movement measuring device with LCD output. This information i.e. the heart rate, the body temperature and the body movement is then transmitted by wireless technology to the doctor who in not in the vicinity of the patient. The sensors measure the information and transmit it by the process of wireless transmission system. This wireless patient monitoring system is specially designed for those patients who require the assistance of multiple doctors such that the output from heart rate, temperature and the movement of hand thus measured is directly transmitted to the corresponding doctors within a hospital. This method is time efficient and more reliable. The doctor is able to monitor several patients while staying in his own department.

 Keywords : Patient monitoring system, wireless transmission, Heart beat sensor, LM35 temperature sensor, Accelerometer, Aurdino Uno, Xbee module, ATmega 328 microcontroller, Liquid Crystal Display, Keypad