Real Time Health Monitoring Using GPRS Technology: Shubhangi M. Verulkar, Maruti Limkar

International Journal of Computer Science and Network (IJCSN)
Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2012 www.ijcsn.org ISSN 2277-5420
Real Time Health Monitoring Using GPRS Technology

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Shubhangi M. Verulkar, 2Maruti Limkar
EXTC department,K.C.College of Engg.,Nerul.

Mumbai university.
Electronics department,terna college of engg,nerul,

Mumbai university
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
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.
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 other

components 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.
1.2 Remote Monitoring System

What is Remote Monitoring?
Remote monitoring, also known as selfmonitoring/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
transmit biometric data. For example, a heartbeat and
temperture transmits that data to a specialist. This
could be 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.
Fig .1 existing system
There are many emergency response services striving

hard to save the lives of people during emergencies.
Firms like TOPSLINE have initiated with services
providing security to the victims falling prey to
untimely situations. Though they are successful at
times, But sometimes they fail to race against time to
reach the victim.
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.
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. Also by using GPS technology
the exact location of the patient

idea of the patients surrounding as well as his

condition.
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.
Fig 2 Proposed system
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 patient
who 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.
The GPS Co-ordinates will be send only if the
patients phone is a GPS enabled Phone. The Doctor
then using the co-ordinates 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 some
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, Bluetooth

module,crystal oscillator etc which the patient will

have to carry.
I)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

7. SYSTEM DIAGRAM
Fig .3 SYSTEM DIAGRAM

III) WEBSITE FOR UPLOADING DATA FROM

MOBILE
8.Results
server
Here we are creating new website for uploading data

from mobile continuously using GPRS, on
website 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.
IV)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
Fig 4. Complete circuit to

read heartbeat and
temperture.
Fig .5 live data transmission of patient on server using GPRS this information will be collected.

Fig .6 GPS Position locator.

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.
10.ADVANTAGES
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.
The staying of specialist is eliminated.

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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International Journal of Computer Science and Network (IJCSN)

Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2012 www.ijcsn.org ISSN 2277-5420