2020 6th International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication Systems (ICACCS)
Design and Development of IOT Based Multi-
Parameter Patient Monitoring System
Athira.A1,Devika.T.D2,Varsha.K.R3,Sree Sanjanaa Bose.S4
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Karpagam Academy of Higher Education
Coimbatore,Tamilnadu,India.
athirachandrabose12@gmail.com1,devikathottarathil@gmail.com2,varsharajan1648@gmail.com3,sanjanaa1109@gmail.com4
Abstract—Multi-parameter patient monitor captures the
physiological vital signs and continuously monitors the
patient condition by alerting the medical staff via alarm. The
revolutionization in machine learning techniques and
Internet of Things (IOT) in healthcare. In this paper, we
have designed an IOT based MPM system where four
parameter namely heart rate, respiration rate ,oxygen
saturation and temperature are monitored using
corresponding sensors and an email is sent to patient's
guardian in case of emergency .The project also focuses on
improving the performance of MPM system using Support
Vector Machine(SVM) algorithm. The classification
accuracy of 95% has been achieved.
Keywords—IOT,SVM classifier,MPM,Smart Health
I. INTRODUCTION
Patient monitoring system is used to monitor the
physiological signs and informs the patients guardian or
doctor about the present condition of the patient.The
traditional method people visit the hospitals and doctors
prescribe medicines according to the reports generated.
This time consuming process, seed the tendency to
postpone the medical checkup by the people. This modern
IOT based approach reduces the time consumed in this
process.
In the recent years biomedical has developing in the
wireless technology required for sustain various zone. The
industrial area specially automation and control was
mostly groped by IOT. Biomedical is one of the current
mode to provide finer health care.IOT machinery has
opened the personal health caring facilities but also in
health care centers. so having the bright system different
parameters are noticed that consumes power, cost and get
bigger efficiency. In according to the bright system ,this
paper is evaluated. Also outline are produced later. Due to
this extended process working people tend to neglect the
checkups or postpone it. The trendy proceed towards time
reduction utilization in the process.In the upcoming years
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use of wireless technology is growing for the need of
support different sectors.This project gives temperature,
respiration rate,spo2 and heart rate values using IoT
Objectives of this work is to design a home based smart
system for aged patients, Analysing of physical parameter
using wireless intelligence, According to the data, It
provide medical assistance according to the data received
i.e. Heart rate, Spo2 etc
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Saratha Devi et.al[1] has designed health monitoring
system using ATmega8 microcontroller with
WBASN.Temperature, BP, Heart beat sensors are used in
this work. To detect the patient health condition , these
sensors are placed on the human body without distracting
the day to day plan of the patient and these health related
parameters are then move on to clinician's server by
wireless technology Global system for mobile. Smart
system made up of sensors, microcontroller, Liquid
Crystal Display and Global system for mobile modem to
transmit or recieve health correlated details to or from the
physician. Likewise, at health care centres using same
Global system for mobile modem. Therefore, Global
system for mobile modem helps in the formation of link
between sick person and physician server. To show the
current result to the patient by using Liquid Crystal
Display . Here investigator used LM34 has temperature
sensor, Infrared Light Emitting Diode and RED Light
Emitting Diode is used for heart rate monitoring and
pressure transducer or the sensor based on piezo-electrical
material is used to analyse the systolic and diastolic BP.
This system gives correct and immediate result with high
perfection which gets straight display on Liquid Crystal
Display. To monitor the doctor server using Global
system for mobile wireless machinary , it takes about 4-5
seconds. It takes small amount of time to know the health
condition's of sick persons and then convey the details to
the doctors.
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III. METHODOLOGY
C.Santhosh Kumar et al[2]has designed a patient
monitoring in the area of machine learning . The class of
supervised algorithm is beyond by one of the well known
method in support vector machine(SVM). The exact
categorization of normal and abnormal sick person can be
applied by SVM.

The input for the SVM classifier hasbeen recruited by

the MPM from the four physiological vital signs. The
intrinsic union between the four vital signs has been
set up to be deep routed through detailedstudies made
on physiological parameters in healthyindividuals.

The introduced system build by the use of both the

four vital signs details and correlation featuresgrant in
growing the strength of the MPM system. The
correlation features are create by getting the geometric
mean of multiplication of essential physiological
parameters in sets of two.

The correlation feature set is

C=[√ (x1x2) , √ (x2x3) , √ (x3x4) , √ (x4x1), √
(x1x3) , √ (x2x4)]

Harish.H.M et al[3] has designed and developed the

wearable physiological parameters monitoring device .It
has been evolved is based on the Zig-Bee and it is
reported in this paper.

The physiological parameters like heart rate and

temperature of the human body can be monitor by
using this system. This device discovered is based on a
person if it is medically disturbed and the receiver
unit that is attach to a computer will be plot graph
for monitored the parameters of a human anatomy.

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Figure.1 Block diagram of proposed MPM System
IV. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
A.Hardware specification
a.Arduino Controller:
x The microcontroller board is a Arduino Uno
based on the ATmega328.[4]
x Microcontroller board has 28 pins in which 6
analog input , 14 digital inut output pins and
remaining are power supply and reset button
x To support the microcontroller,it contains
everything which is needed ; connect it with
computer using a USB cable , power or
battery to get started
It is a public domain hardware and software company,
project and end user that plans and construct single-board
microcontrollers an kits for build digital gadget and
collective objects that can recognize and maintain gadget
in the corporeal and digital universe. Its outcomes are
permitted under the GNU Lesser General Public License
(LGPL), By anybody it can permit the construction of
arduino boards and software diffusion. Arduino boards
are obtainable economically in gathered form or as do-it-
yourself kits.
b.Temperature Sensor:
x Temperature of a medium can be measured
using temperature sensor.
x It dimension are about 224*120*60+40mm
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x 0.5 degree celcius ensured accuracy(25 degree
celcius)
x LM 35 Temperature sensor is used.
c. Heart Rate Sensor
x By using high intensity type LED and LDR the
heart beat is sensed
x Between the LED and LDR a finger is placed
x Photo diode or photo transistor can be used as a
sensor[5]
x For detection of skin it can be illuminated with
visible light (red)by using transmitted or
reflected light
d. SPO2 Sensor:
x Operating temperature 0 to 40 degree celcius
x SPO2 ranges from 0-100%
x Accuracy:+/-2% at 70-100% , +/-3% at 50-69%
e. ECG Sensor:
x The electrical activity of heart can be recorded
by the process of electrocardiography over a
period of time by using electrode placed on the
skin[6]
x The tiny electrical changes on the skin that can
be detected by these electrodes, which arises
from the heart muscles during each heart beat
depolarising and repolarising of
electrophysiological pattern was recognized[7]
x It consist of 10 electrodes are placed on the
patients limbs and on the surface of the chest
x The electrical potential is measured from 12
different angles and the overall magnitude of the
heart is recorded over a period of time.[8]
x Respiration rate are derived from the ECG
Sensor.
f. Power Supply:
In this system 230/12v step down
transformer is used, In which it steps down into
12 voltage.12 v ac voltage given to the bridge
rectifier (1n4007 diode ) as an input and it
convert to 12 v dc voltage. since we need 5 v ,so
we are using 7805 5 v and 117 3.3 voltage
regulator for desired output. [9]
B..Software Description
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a.Arduino IDE: Figure.2 Hardware setup of patient

The Arduino software is used for burning the monitoring system
Arduino code into the microcontroller

V. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

The heart rate sensor,

temperature sensor and pulse oximeter was
connected to the arduino microcontroller and HR,
Temperature and oxygen saturation values was
obtained. ECG sensor was acquired to calculate the
respiration rate from the ECG signal. The sensors
are connected as shown in the figure.ECG
waveform was displayed in DSO and other
parameters in LCD. The patient database of 20
person was compared with the acquired values and
condition was analyzed. when the abnormal
condition was detected, an email is sent to the
caretaker via wi-fi module ESP8266.
The second part of the project was to
develop an efferent SVM algorithm that detects
patient condition.The designed MPM System was
used to create a real time database from 200
persons,vital signs was collected and label was
created as normal and abnormal .six correlation
features were also computed from 4 parameters.In
total 10 features were created for 2000 samples.The Figure.3 Shows the e-mail sent to a person in case of
abnormality
samples was segmented into training(1500 samples)
data and testing (5000 samples) data. The SVM
linear classifier model was created and trained. A
classification accuracy of 95% was achieved using VI. CONCLUSION
designed system In this paper, dual objective was focused and
achieved. Firstly a cost-effective IOT based MPM system
was designed. Secondly, effective SVM algorithm was
modelled and tested. The IOT based MPM system
designed efficiently than existing system. The future
work focuses an combining the machine learning
technique with cloud computing, so that point of care can
be allowed to patients at remote place and quality
healthcare can be produced .
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