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PROJECT REPORT ON
“REMOTE MONITORING OF MEDICAL SIGNALS IN EMERGENCY BASED
ON IOT”

Submitted by
MISTRY MARVI 140280117024
SUSMITA PATEL 140280117042
SHIVALI PATEL 140280117041
Guided by
Prof. Rakesh C. patel
Asst. Prof Vandana patel

INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING

2017-18

L.D COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

NAVRANGPURA, AHMEDABAD - 380015
 INDEX
Sr. No Index Page
I Certificates
II Acknowledgement
Chapter 1
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Aim & Objectives
1.3 Problem specifications
1.4 Literature Review
1.5 Plan of Work
1.6 Materials and Tools required
Chapter 2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
Chapter 3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Chapter 4
4.1 Summary
4.2 Advantages of the project
4.3 Limitations
4.4 Future work
References
Appendix 1: Periodic Progress Report
Appendix 2 PSAR Report
Appendix 3: Design Engineering Canvases
 Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad

L.D COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

IC

2017-18

CERTIFICATE

Date:

This is to certify that the report entitled “REMOTE MONITORING OF MEDICAL SIGNALS
IN EMERGENCY BASED ON IOT” has been carried out by MISTRY MARVI, SUSMITA
PATEL, SHIVALI PATEL under my guidance in fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of
Engineering in INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING (7TH Semester) of
Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad during the academic year 2017-18.

Guide:
(Prof. RAKESH C. PATEL)
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We take this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to all those
people who made this project work easier with words of encouragement, motivation
and helped us towards the successful completion of this project work.
First we would like to express my sincere gratitude to my Project Guide and Professor,
Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Prof. Rakesh Patel, L.D College
of Engineering, at Ahmedabad-380015 for his insightful advice, motivating suggestions,
invaluable guidance, help and lots of moral support in successful completion of this
Project and also for his constant encouragement and advice throughout our B.E.
programme.
I would like to thank all other teaching staff for their valuable teaching and constant
advice which made us to finish this program successfully.
Finally my deepest gratitude goes to my parents who have given me much needed
comfort, support, encouragement and inspiration for completing this project.

Date: / /2017

Mistry Marvi
Susmita Patel
Patel Shivali
 CHAPTER 1

1.1 INTRODUCTION

It is a system that will enable live remote monitoring of medical signals such as ECG with
the help of IOT (Internet Of Things) technology. It is going to enable the doctors to
remotely address any emergency situation by detecting the symptons of any threats on
his device that will display the medical signals of the patient admitted at the remote
hospital, without having his presence mandatory at the hospital.

1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The main objective of our project is to ease and make the system of patient monitoring
more efficient by enabling transmission of medical data to remote devices in a secure
way as well as in real-time.

1.3 PROBLEM SPECIFICATIONS

 The conventional system of continuously monitoring of medical signals requires a

nurse and a doctor to be present at the room for individual patient so as to monitor
the display and take any immediate actions required.
 The previous system that provided the transfer of data to remote places required to
disconnect the patient from the monitor and had unidirectional property that is it was
only possible to send the data from the hospital to the doctor’s device. There was no
way to receive commands from the doctor’s device to the monitoring system.
 A large amount of storage space that is solid memory or maybe in hard copy is
required to store patient’s data containing his details as well as the medical signals
record. To maintain and access this s a real painstaking and time consuming task.

1.4 LITERATURE REVIEW

 Studied the ECG system (its leads, connection, etc.)

 Learned various circuits to build a suitable ECG 3-lead system.
 Studied about the Arduino controller, its programming language and interconnections
and interface to our ECG circuit.
 Studied about the IOT module that enables the transfer of data remotely.
 1.5 PLAN OF WORK:

A work plan is an outline of a set of goals and processes by which a team and/or person
can accomplish those goals, and offering the reader a better understanding of the scope
of the project. Work plans, whether used in professional or academic life, help you stay
organized while working on projects. Through work plans, you break down a process
into small, achievable tasks and identify the things you want to accomplish.

July August September October

Activity Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Initial Study
Feasibility Study
Requirement
Analysis
System Design
System Coding
Testing
Implementation
Documentation

The task of coding, circuit implementation and testing will be done in the next semester
as soon as the project gets approved.

1.6 MATERIALS AND TOOLS REQUIRED

As is discussed thoroughly in the 3rd chapter of this report, the various materials and
tools required will be a suitable ECG sensing device such as AD8232 controller along with
the 3 lead electrodes, interface to Arduino micro controller, Arduino to IOT device
interface, a suitable receiver such as a smart phone for real-time monitoring, a drop box
facility for storage of ECG signals and an facility for bidirectional facility for an alert
generated by the doctor.
 CHAPTER 3

3.1 COMPONENTS:

 Medical device/ECG 3 lead system

 Detector/ Arduino controller
 Transmitter/IOT device
 Receiver/such as smart phone
 Drop box facility for storage

3.2 SYSTEM DESIGN:

Components of remote patients monitoring system that is based on IOT-cloud

architecture:
3.3 METHODS:

There are various signals in medical field that require continuous monitoring
for prolong period, such as ECG signals .For such condition this project enables doctor to
monitor such signals in their mobile or any device they desire with the help of IOT
(internet of things). The device will allow the doctor to monitor the signals that are
currently measured at the hospital so that he could suggest concerned steps even when
not present at hospital. Also the storage of such continuously monitored signals requires
much of solid state memory. The IOT technology also allows storing such signals in cloud
space .Hence, much of memory space is relieved s well the retrieval of the data also
becomes easy.

Here design, Implementation, and validation of a medical monitoring system for

recording, transmission, and interpretation of ECG signals in different recording modes
is done. The system consists of an ECG device, a cloud-based analysis, and accompanied
mobile applications for physicians and patients.

3.4 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE:

Data Acquisition is performed by multiple wearable sensor that measure

physiological biomarkers, such as ECG, etc. The sensors connect to the network through
an intermediate data concentrator and signal conditioners, which is typically a controller
located in the vicinity of the patients.

Data Transmission components of the system are responsible for conveying

recordings of the patient from the patient’s house (or any remote location) to the data
center with assured security and privacy, ideally in near real-time. Typically, the sensory
acquisition platform is equipped with a short range radio such as Zigbee, which it uses to
transfer sensor data to the concentrator. And for long term storage using internet
connectivity on the concentrator, typically via a Smart phone’s WIFI or cellular data
connection. Sensors in the data acquisition part form an internet of thing based
architecture as each individual sensor’s data can accessed through the internet via the
concentrator.

Cloud Processing has three distinct components: storage, analytics, and visualization.
The system is designed for long term storage of patient’s biomedical information as well
as health professionals with diagnostic information. Cloud based medical data storage
and the upfront challenges have been extensively addressed in the literature.

3.5 FLOW CHART:

Start

Signal Capture Display capture signal

Connection

Display

Creating input Stream

Disease Diagnoses
Receiving signal

Storage
 CHAPTER 4

4.1 SUMMARY:

The project designs and constructs a system for receiving and analyzing cardiac
signals that receive directly from the body by sending it to the phone via IOT network
protocol then submit to be displayed and analyzed for identifying a number of diseases.
The present work displays a practical analysis of the hardware and software solutions
available for ambulatory ECG monitoring.

4.1 ADVANTAGES:

 Increases health care access

 Reduced healthcare delivery costs
 Enables early detection of deterioration
 Enhances diagnosis and prescriptions
 Saves time
 Increases efficiency
 Improved communications
 Reduces strains on the available facilities
 Simplifies complex tasks
 Increased competitive edge

4.2 LIMITATIONS:

 Requires proficiently working WIFI or network connections, the deficiency of which

can cause a severe failure of the system.

4.3 FUTURE WORK

The task for the next semester includes the implementation of the circuit, its testing and
coding. The interfaces of the devices and the actual real time execution will be done in
the next 3 months.
 REFERENCES

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987424/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_patient_monitoring
 https://www.survivingwithandroid.com/2015/06/internet-of-things-with-android-and-
arduino.html
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography
 https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ad8232-heart-rate-monitor-hookup-guide
 APPENDIX – 1

The PPR of the 3 members of our group is attached as from the next page accordingly
starting from Mistry marvi followed by Susmita Patel and then Shivali patel.
 APPENDIX – 2

The PSAR of the 3 members of our group is attached as from the next page accordingly
starting from Mistry marvi followed by Susmita Patel and then Shivali patel.
 APPENDIX – 3

Following are the images of our design engineering canvases:

AEIOU :

Empathy mapping:

Product development canvas:

Ideation canvas: