On Development of MySignals based prototype for application in health vitals monitoring

Abstract

India's health infrastructure is under pressure since the daily COVID-19 cases have crossed the milestone of 4 Lakhs cases per day which surpass the previous years' peak. Patients with mild symptoms have been advised for home treatment since most of the hospitals are running out of bed. In this situation delivering healthcare to people has become revolutionizing due to the rapid advancement of embedded systems, communication, and informatics technologies. Integration of different health sensors, handheld devices, and internet can be a great potential for significant improvement of the quality of remote healthcare. This paper discusses the use of MySignals HW shield which is a hardware development platform for medical devices to build e-health monitoring system. Wearable health monitoring system prototype has been developed in this work. To conduct experiments, health vitals such as body temperature, ECG, oxygen saturation level, and pulse rate from 5 volunteers have been measured, collected, and stored in a cloud database using the system prototype. To evaluate the performance of the prototype, transmission delay has been recorded in both wired (Ethernet) and wireless (Wi-Fi) communication modes. It is observed that it takes 2.71 ms and 5.18 ms of time to collect and store the health vitals to the cloud database in wired and wireless mode respectively. Comparing the collected health vitals with the normal range of health vitals, no abnormality is found in all volunteer's health. Finally, a framework for contactless monitoring of COVID-affected patients is proposed. Contactless monitoring of health vitals can reduce the chance of community spread.

WITHDRAWN: SWAST KHOJ: A real-time working prototype for vital healthcare monitoring System

“…In this section, illustrated and tabulated relevant research papers highlighting a comparative view of their contribution. Saif et al [14] implemented a wearable health monitoring system prototype using MySignals HW and Arduino which supports a variety of sensors: ECG Sensor, Body Temperature Sensor, SPO2 Sensor for measuring health vitals. Transmission latency has been measured in both wired (Ethernet) and wireless (Wi-Fi) communication modes to assess the prototype's performance.…”

“…Being remote is not the only requirement, being accurate and highly mobile is also important. Saha et al [15] and Saif et al [14] implemented a real-time working prototype for handling vital information of the patient using heterogeneous sensor nodes and a hardware kit respectively. The authors gave some limitations pointed out in the conclusion.…”

“…This process has been repeated for the different transmission media (Wired communication and Wireless communication). Every time end to end delay has been calculated using equation 1 [14].…”

“…RR, PR and QT intervals are used for checking various heart diseases. The normal range of the PR, RR, QT and QRS as per medical guidelines are listed in table 6[14] [36][37]. Therefore, the proposed SWAST KHOJ has implemented a real-time working prototype of the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) to handle emergency healthcare situations.…”

Human Behavior Recognition Model Based on Feature and Classifier Selection

“…For example, abnormal gait and hand tremors are detected by analyzing human motion. Reference [ 15 ] designed and developed an electronic health monitoring prototype. Both wired and wireless communications can connect sensors to devices.…”