| dc.description.abstract | Nowadays, Portable Biomedical Devices for health care assistance are producing a great impact in monitoring a patient’s health status and with an additional alarm function, it may save people in many health emergency cases. The development of portable telemedicine devices is accelerated by new technology like Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), wireless data transmission (GPRS), Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and reduction of electronic devices that make it wearable.
The aim of the project to develop a healthcare assistance device is the personal heart rate monitoring, position tracking and alarm in urgent cases. This device is a low-cost ECG monitoring for the patient with heart disease or elderly who unable to announce their failed condition. Moreover, the device can be incredibly useful for knowing the whereabouts of Alzheimer patients who are likely to attempt to go missing, escape, wander
off and are incapable of returning home. So the system allows real-time rescue of patients having heart failure or high risk of life. The project descries the design of a portable, microcontroller based heart rate measuring device. Heart rates of the subject are measured from the finger using optical sensors (IR) and the rate is then averaged and calculated to activate the alarm function through the GPS and GSM module - module SIM548 from SIMCOM. An alarm message, included with position information of the patient will be
sent to his caretaker through a mobile phone network.
KEY WORDS - Medical Device, Health Monitoring, Heart Rate Monitoring, IR Heart
Rate Monitoring, Portable Healthcare Monitoring, Heart Failure Alarm, Tele-assistance, Global Positioning System health care. | en_US |
