REAL TIME HEALTH MONITORING

SYSTEM OF REMOTE
PATIENT USING ARM7





INTRODUCTION

Care of critically ill patient, requires spontaneous & accurate
decisions so that life-protecting & lifesaving therapy can be properly
applied

Statistics reveal that every minute a human is losing his/her life
across the globe

In India, everyday many lives are affected by heart attacks and
more importantly because the patients did not get timely and proper
help


PROBLEM STATEMENT
This system is wired everywhere
Even after connecting these systems to a particular patient, a paramedical
assistant need to continuously monitor and note down all the vital parameters of a
given patient by keeping track of all of his/her records manually
Adopting such a method is error prone and may lead to disaster in the case of a
human error.
Regular monitoring of patient is not possible once he/she is discharged from
hospitals
These systems are not capable of transmitting data continuously also range
limitations of different wireless technologies used in the systems.


Project is based on
Monitoring of remote patients, after he is discharged from
hospital

This energy efficient remote patient monitoring system is

Able to send parameters of patient in real time
It enables the doctors to monitor patients parameters
(temp, heartbeat, ECG) in real time
Parameters of patient are measured continuously (temp,
heartbeat, ECG) and wirelessly transmitted

PROPOSED SYSTEM

To improve the accuracy and to increase the efficiency of the above
processes a real time patient monitoring system based on Wireless
Sensor Networks and a centralized ARM Server integrated with GSM
module is designed.

The system not only help in monitoring the patient when he is in the
bed but also when he is not on bed i.e. when he is mobile

Such a system would constantly monitor important body parameters
like temperature, heartbeat, ECG and would compare it against a
predetermined value set

In the current proposed system the patient health is continuously
monitored by the Mobile Multi Patient Monitoring System and the
acquired data is transmitted to a centralized ARM server using
Wireless Sensor Networks.



If a particular patients health parameter falls below the
threshold value, a buzzer alert is triggered by the ARM server

Along with a buzzer an automated SMS is posted to the
preconfigured Doctors mobile number using a standard GSM
module interfaced to the ARM server

The Doctor is continuously connected to the ARM server using
GSM Module and he/she can get a record of a particular patients
information by just posting a SMS message to the centralized ARM
server.

In such case the patient will get a very quick medical
help, saves time and energy of his relatives


This will reduce treatment time, cost and power consumption to a
greater extent. At the same time, the efficiency of examining ward will
be improved by making the system more real-time and robust

If a particular patients information is required by the doctor, then
he/she can send a SMS to the ARM server mentioning the record
number of a particular patient

The ARM server will first check for a valid doctors mobile number
which is provided to the GSM module during system boot up time.

If the mobile number requested by the doctor matches with the one
present in the ARM server then a SMS response will be sent back to
the doctor based on the request.
The hardware design of Wireless Sensor Network Gateway is
based on ARM microprocessor
Through, expanding ZigBee and GSM modules, the platform,
can realize the function of wireless sensor network
nodal data collection and transmission. In this the zigbee
modules (using IEEE 802.15a) are considered as zigbee
transceivers.
Zigbee modules can communicate and send the information
from one place to another.
Zigbee is connected to center core ARM processor in which
the application runs.
This ARM processor acts as the gateway to zigbee and GSM
module.
ARM is connected to GSM module through which text
messages like SMS alerts are sent to the doctors mobile
number which is configurable
This project builds an independent system that automatically logs
vital parameters of patients for easy access.

The data is accessible to doctors through mobile device for
convenience

Data of all patients is stored in a common database

Mobility of the equipment is improved by making the equipment
more portable

In the current proposed system the patient health is continuously
monitored by the Mobile Multi Patient Monitoring System and the
acquired data is transmitted to a centralized ARM server using
Wireless Sensor Networks



Temperature, ECG and Heart Beat pulse signals are measured
from the temperature, ECG and heart beat sensors and are
processed by a built-in ARM processor

The processed data are then transmitted by Zigbee
Wirelessly that consumes very low power and is extremely
small in size

Finally the received data is sent to the PC

The graphical user interface programs on the PC are
coded using Visual Basic language

In the PC a coding is written using Visual basic for transmitting
the information of any abnormal health conditions to the specified
mobile number (of the doctor in charge) in the program through a
GSM modem

Embedded C is used for programming the ARM processor

Using GSM modem message is transmitted to the programmed
mobile number to the doctor in charge when the measured
temperature exceeds the allowable value or if the pulse measured
is abnormal.
DESIGNING
The designing part includes basically two sections as
Follows:
Hardware design
Software design

HARDWARE DESIGN
It includes
Power supply design
5 v- for temperature sensor circuit, heartbeat
circuit, RS 232 connector circuit
3.3 v-for ARM 7 processor
+/- 9 v-for ECG sensor circuit
Temperature
Sensor
Heart beat sensor
ECG sensor
ARM Processor and Zigbee connector circuit

Upon system boot up, the mobile patient monitor system will
continuously monitor the patients vital parameters like Heart
Beat, body temperature etc and will periodically send those
parameters to a centralized server using ZigBee node
configured as co-coordinator.

If a particular patients health parameter falls below the
threshold value, a buzzer alert is triggered by the ARM server.

Along with a buzzer an automated SMS is posted to the
preconfigured Doctors mobile number using a standard GSM
module interfaced to the ARM server.

The Doctor is continuously connected to the ARM server using
GSM Module and he/she can get a record of a particular
patients information by just posting a SMS message to the
centralized ARM server.
This will reduce treatment time, cost and power consumption
to a greater extent. At the same time, the efficiency of
examining ward will be improved by making the system more
real-time and robust.
If a particular patients information is required by the doctor,
then he/she can send a SMS to the ARM server mentioning
the record number of a particular patient.
The ARM server will first check for a valid doctors mobile
number which is provided to the GSM module during system
boot up time.
If the mobile number requested by the doctor matches with
the one present in the ARM server then a SMS response will
be sent back to the doctor based on the request.

The hardware design of Wireless Sensor NetworkGateway is based
on ARM microprocessor.
Through, expanding ZigBee and GSM modules, the platform,can
realize the function of wireless sensor network
nodal data collection and transmission. In this the zigbee modules
are considered as zigbee transceivers.
Zigbee modules can communicate and send the information from
one place to another.
Zigbee is connected to center core ARM processor in which the
application runs.
This ARM processor acts as the gateway to zigbee and GSM
module.
ARM is connected to GSM module through which text messages like
SMS alerts are sent to the doctors mobile number which is
configurable
ARM 7 PROCESSOR

The ARM7TDMI-S is a general purpose 32-bit
microprocessor

It offers high performance and very low power consumption

ARM architecture is based on RISC principles, instruction set and
related decode mechanism are simpler than CISC Pipeline

Techniques employed ARM Processor supports both
32-bit and 16-bit instructions via the ARM and Thumb instruction
set
The 3 parameters to be monitored are sensed using
respective sensor and data is feed to ARM7
Embedded devices include two types of processors:
a Microcontroller
& a DSP to process signals

In ARM processors, these can be replaced by one single
processor
This unit is the heart of the complete system
It is actually responsible for all the process being executed
It will monitor & control all the peripheral devices or
components connected in the system
Complete intelligence of the project resides in the software
code embedded in the ARM 7

The code will be written in Embedded C and will be burned
or programmed into the code memory using a programmer

ZIGBEE

ZigBee is Wireless Networking Technology and is an established
set of specifications for wireless personal area networking (WPAN),
i.e., digital radio connections between computers and related
devices

This kind of network eliminates use of physical data
buses like USB and Ethernet cables

ZNet 2.5 (Series 2) modules are used

The XBee ZNet 2.5 modules from Digi are more advanced than the
popular XBee Series 1modules, but they require a little additional
work to set up
SOFTWARE DESIGN
This includes the coding of ARM 7 processor and
coding for downloading of data and for GUI
(Graphical User Interface) on server side

For ARM 7: Embedded c using Keil software
For GUI : VB.Net
For Zigbee: XCTU software for configuring Zigbee
For graphical user interface: Visual studio 2008

On the server side the code is developed. This code generates a GUI
which includes blocks for ECG, Temp & HB, and no. of samples;
Received data, system error
message
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