Abstract:
To address the issue of increasing health care costs and overcrowded hospitals and
care giving institutions, a great deal of research has been propelled into the use of
mobile technology and sensor devices to realize better e-Health systems.
Telemedicine provides medical information exchange at a distance, to support
medical procedure, with the ultimate goal for improving community health care.
This project implements such a system, an electronic health (e-Health) monitoring
system utilizing a Smart Phone, Ethernet module and a centralized Web Server. The
system was developed using Java on the Android mobile platform and PHP, HTML /
CSS3 and JavaScript for Web GUI. The basic components used are Ethernet Shield
(based on Wiznet W5100 Ethernet chip), 3 lead ECG probes, Arduino Mega 2560,
and OP-AMP AD624/620. Softwares used are Arduino IDE, Proteus, Android Studio
and PHP Storm. The system was tested and found to satisfy its core requirements with
a few recommendations regarding signal quality being affected due to noise produced
from physically intense activities. Overall the system functioned well and provided a
good warning system and was usable and beneficial.
