GPS and GSM Based Human Health Monitoring System
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2013
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University of Management and Technology
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In this era technology is running with time it completely occupied the life style of human beings. It is being used everywhere in our daily life to fulfil our needs. We are making use of different sensors for different applications and sometimes we may even use same sensors differently for different applications. We can not only increase the speed of life but also increase security with good ideas by making use of latest technology. In this project we are employing technology to sense serious health problems so that efficient medical services can be provided to the patient in appropriate time.
Some severe diseases for example heart failure needs close and continual monitoring procedure after diagnosis, in order to prevent mortality or further damage to the mentioned diseases or disorders. Monitoring of these patients, usually, occur at hospitals or healthcare centres. However, the patients are often too early released, due to need of hospital bed for another patient on the waiting list, who needs to be hospitalized immediately. As population increases and demand for services increases, the ability to maintain the quality and availability of care is achieved by this project.
This project aims in sending alert messages in emergency times e.g. when a person is alone in home or travelling, if he got heart attack then alerting messages will be send to the mobile phone. The message consists of location of that person also. Here we get the alerting message from the GSM modem (SMS Message) and the location of that person can be traced with the help of GPS. The GPS stands for Global positioning system. This GPS receiver is capable of identifying the location in which it was present in the form of latitude and longitudes.
We used heartbeat sensor made by combination of LED and LDR for measuring heart beat. Depending upon the rate of circulation of blood per second the heart beat rate per minute is calculated. Temperature sensor is used to give temperature of that person also. This device consists of a microcontroller which takes the input from the heart beat sensor and temperature sensor and calculates the heart rate and temperature of patient. The micro controller also takes the responsibility to send message through GSM modem and track location through GPS.
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GPS, GSM