Home Based Patient Bed Monitoring System Case Study

Human health has caught the attention of professionals from different fields. There is a need for further development of medical devices that will make the life of the people who suffers from chronic diseases manageable. Cardiovascular diseases including heart attacks and strokes are according to World Health Organization the world’s leading cause of death. The symptoms are unpredictable and cause sudden death. Any age group can be affected by the disease but especially elderly people are more exposed because of their vulnerable health condition. Many people spend a huge amount of money for their medical care and equipment. There is a need of modern and high technology equipment which can be managed/operated by the patient him/herself, family member and ambulatory health care personnel.
Continuous monitoring
This system can also be used at places other than hospitals, including home monitoring of patients with special needs.
The study focuses on the design of a Home-based Patient Bed Monitoring System, which is particularly applied in determining the heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration sensor and Blood Oxygen Saturation (SpO2). All of these are on a single device and displays the vital status result on LCD that has an android application installed on it. The design is incorporated with different sensors that are used to determine the vital status of the patient. It is controlled by a microcontroller that processes the data from the sensors and converts the signal to the application and displays the output on the LCD.
The system is also equipped with an alarm and GSM module. If the vital status of the patient is critical, the alarm will automatically switch on and the system sends a message to the person-in-charge for the alert. The GSM also has the ability to send vital sign status if the person-in-charge sends message status to the