Real Time Health Monitoring Using GPRS Technology

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REAL TIME HEALTH MONITORING USING GPRS TECHNOLOGY

Dinesh Yadav1, Mukesh Agrawal2, Udbhav Bhatnagar3, Sachin Gupta4
1 Graduate Scholar, Computer Science & Engineering, yadav.dinesh330@gmail.com
2 Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, mukeshsir@gmail.com
3 Lecturer, Computer Science & Engineering, udbhav.ub@gmail.com
4 Lecturer, Computer Science & Engineering, sachingupta.cse@jecrc.ac.in
JECRC Jaipur, Rajasthan, India,
Abstract-- Advances in sensor technology, personal mobile devices, and wireless broadband communications are enabling the
development of an integrated personal mobile health monitoring system that can provide patients with a useful tool to assess their own
health and manage their personal health information anytime and anywhere. Personal mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobile
phones, are becoming more powerful integrated information management tools and play a major role in many people's lives. Here I
focus on designing a Mobile health-monitoring system for people who stay alone at home or suffering from Heart Disease. This system
presents a complete unified and mobile platform based connectivity solution for unobtrusive health monitoring. Developing a
hardware which will sense heart rate and temperature of a patient, using Bluetooth modem all information lively transmitted to smart
phone, from smart phone all information transmitted to server using GPRS. At server the received data compared with the standard
threshold minimum and maximum value. The normal range of heart rate is 60 to 135 and the temperature of the patient is said to be
normal above 95^F and below 104^F. If at all the rate increases above 145 or decreases below 55,it may be fatal and if it crossed this
threshold limit then SMS will be sent to the relative of patient and Doctors along with measured values.
The build-in GPS further provides the position information of the monitored person. The remote server not only collects physiological
measurements but also tracks the position of the monitored person in real time.
For transmitting data from Smartphone to the server using GPRS, here we need to create a website on data will be continuously
transmitted from Smartphone to the website and from website data will be downloaded continuously on the server.
Thus the system helps in tracking down the patient without getting the patient into any sort of communication. Undue mishaps can be
avoided within the golden hours after a patient is struck with a heart attack.
Keywords: Telemedicine
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1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Telemedicine
The concept of the project taken from Telemedicine. It is a
rapidly developing application of clinical medicine where
medical information is transferred through interactive
audiovisual media for the purpose of consulting, and
sometimes remote medical procedures or examinations[1].
Telemedicine may be as simple as two health professionals
discussing a case over the telephone, or as complex as using
satellite technology and videoconferencing equipment to
conduct a real-time consultation between medical specialists
in two different countries. Telemedicine generally refers to
the use of communications and information technologies for
the delivery of clinical care.
Care at a distance (also called in absentia care), is an old
practice which was often conducted via post. There has been a
long and successful history of in absentia health care which,
thanks to modern communication technology, has evolved
into what we know as modern telemedicine.
In its early manifestations, African villagers used smoke
signals to warn people to stay away from the village in case of
serious disease. In the early 1900s, people living in remote
areas in Australia used two-way radios, powered by a dynamo
driven by a set of bicycle pedals, to communicate with the
Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.

The terms e-health and telehealth are at times wrongly
interchanged with telemedicine. Like the terms "medicine"
and "health care", telemedicine often refers only to the
provision of clinical services while the term telehealth can
refer to clinical and non-clinical services such as medical
education, administration, and research. The term e-health is
often, particularly in the UK and Europe, used as an umbrella
term that includes telehealth, electronic medical records, and
othercomponents of health IT.Telemedicine can be broken
into three main categories: store-and-forward,mobile
monitoring and interactive services.
Our project deals with remote Monitoring using mobile
phone.
b. Remote Monitoring System
What is Remote Monitoring?
Remote monitoring, also known as self-monitoring/testing,
enables medical professionals to monitor a patient remotely
using various technological devices. This method is primarily
used for managing chronic diseases or specific conditions,
such as heart disease, diabetes mellitus, or asthma. These
services can provide comparable health outcomes to
traditional in-person patient encounters, supply greater
satisfaction to patients, and may be cost-effective.
In remote monitoring, sensors are used to capture and
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transmit biometric data. For example, a heartbeat and
done in either real time or the data could be stored and then
forwarded.
Examples of remote monitoring include:
Home-based nocturnal dialysis
Cardiac and multi-parameter monitoring of remote ICUs
Home telehealth
Disease management
So a Remote Patient Monitoring System helps to continuously
monitor important parameters of a patient like heart beat,
temperature etc, with the help of sensors which track these
parameters and sends a signal to the concern person in case of
some abnormality in these parameters.
2. THE EXISTING SYSTEM
Currently the system used for patient monitoring is the fixed
monitoring system which can be used only when the patient is
on bed. The available systems are huge in size and only
available in the hospitals in ICU.victims falling prey to
untimely situations. Though they are successful at times, But
sometimes they fail to race against time to reach the victim.[2]
Also all the current system provide monitoring of the
patient when they are on bed , but there is no system as such
that can provide monitoring of the patient when he is mobile
or not hospitalized. Also there is no automatic system that can
regularly provide important data about the patient when he or
she is mobile.
temperature transmits that data to a specialist.

Also by using GPS technology the exact location of the
patient.
Fig 2:Proposed system
Fig1:Existing system
3. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM

System would constantly monitor important body parameters
like temperature , heartbeat and would compare it against a
predetermined value set and if these values cross a particular
limit it would automatically alert the doctor and relatives of
the patient via a SMS. In such case the patient will get a very
quick medical help and also would save time and energy of the
relatives who neither would have to be with them all the time.
can be determined. Here sensors, and the smart phone

collects/displays the Physiological data and also transmits data
to the remote Server through wireless technology like GSM,
Wi-Fi, GPRS etc .Here this can keep record of all the mobiles
which are connected to the system.
4. FEATURES
Our project is a model which incorporates sensors to measure
parameters like body temperature, heart beat rate, and transfer
it to the patients mobile phone which has a software that
contains predefined limits of both the parameters and
continuous monitoring of those parameters is carried out. The
link between the patientwho has to carry a circuit with him
and his mobile phone is done via a Bluetooth Module. Once
there is any sort of deviation in the parameters, then the
patients mobile will immediately send a SMS to a predefined
Number(Doctor) containing the value of the parameter which
has deviated along with the patients GPS co-ordinates[4].
The GPS Co-ordinates will be send only if the patients phone
is a GPS enabled Phone. The Doctor then using the coordinates can track the patients exact location using software
on his PC.
Another feature is that the doctor can also access the patients
mobile phone camera to click photos with it using his PC. So
that can give him someidea of the patients surrounding as well
as his condition
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5. WHY THESE PARAMETERS?
As the statistics revealed earlier that Heart Attack causes the
most number of Deaths in the world, it was decided that have
Heart Beat Monitoring as one of the Parameters.
Below it is explained as to How Heart Beat is monitored: The heart beat rate of the patient is constantly
monitored.
The normal range of heart rate is 60 to 135.
If at all the rate increases above 145 or decreases below

55, it may be fatal.
The sensor records the data and constantly sends the

parameter to patients mobile via Bluetooth.
If the parameter(s) deviate from the standard range, it

will indicate the doctor via a message consisting
parameters of the patient[3].
c)HOSPITAL SERVER
Data from website loaded in hospital server continuously, also
and live gps location shown on Google map. The software will
be programmed in such a way that in case of variations of the
parameters from upper or lower limit, it will immediately send
the Reading via SMS to the Doctor Mobile. The Doctors
obile will also receive the GPS co-ordinates of the
patient.GSM module is present on the
7.
SYSTEM DIAGRAM
Fig3.System Diagra
Also High/Low Body Temperature can cause such illness that

can prove Fatal. It plays a very important part in maintaining
Blood Pressure etc.
Below it is explained as to How Body

Temperature is monitored:
The temperature of the patient is said to be
normal above 95^F and below 104^F.
If the temperature falls below 95^F, that means the

blood circulation has fallen below reqd. level and hence
it may prove fatal.
As soon as the temperature falls below 95^F the doctor

is notified via SMS.
6. TEMPERATURE
Body temperature is lower in the morning than it is in late
afternoon and evening. Temperature can vary with other
factors, such as exercise, drinking hot or cold fluids, sitting in
a cold room, fighting an infection, and by the accuracy and
type of thermometer used.
The normal core body temperature of a healthy, resting adult
human being is stated to be at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37.0
degrees Celsius.
SENSORS
The sensors for Heart Beat and Body Temperature will be
mounted on a board along with the other required things like
AVR ATMega 32 IC, Bluetoothmodule,crystal oscillator etc
which the patient will have to carry.
a)BLUETOOTH LINK
The link will be established between the patients Bluetooth
Enabled Mobile Phone and the Sensors
circuit via a Bluetooth Module which will be mounted on the
Sensor Ckt. This helps in continuous monitring
b) WEBSITE FOR UPLOADING DATA FROM MOBILE
Here we are creating new website for uploading data from
mobile continuously using GPRS, onwebsite we need do
programming which will receive and store data. On request
from server data will transmitted to the server on specific
interval. New website will acts like third party in GPRS
Communication.
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8. RESULTS
The results shown in this chapter proves that developed
system is used to Monitor the health of the patients lively as
GPRS technology used to transmit data from smartphone to
the server, patients can be any where in the world data will be
transmitted to the server ,incase of the emergency if it crosses
higher or lower threshold limit sms will be activated from
server end to preassigned number and location of the patient is
shown on the google map on server end[4].
F i g 4 . Complete circuit to read hear t beat and temperture
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Fig .5 GPS Position locator.
11. REFERENCE
9. CONCLUSION
The most important part of the project is that it
monitors a moving patient rather than a stationary
or a bedridden patient.
This system ensures that the patient receives
medical attention in the nick of time before it
is too late.
Continuous monitoring of health and cost
effective disease management is the only way
to ensure economic viability of the healthcare
system. This paper presents an integrated
health monitoring mobile platform for
connected.[5]
10. ADVANTAGES
It is a multipurpose so that overall conditions
are easily measured.
Easy to operate.
Compare with compact sensor it gives better
performance.
Modern technologies have developed
that promotes comfortable and better life
which is disease free
Prevention Is Better Than Cure.
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