Smart phone based E- Health monitoring system

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.