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Wireless Sensor Based Handy Patient
Monitoring System
Neha R. Pandya Vitthal K. Bhosale
Department Of Electronics & Assistant Professor
Telecommunication Department Of Electronics &
Telecommunication
Deogiri Institute Of Deogiri Institute Of
Engineering & Management Engineering & Management
Studies Studies
Aurangabad,Maharashtra, Aurangabad,Maharashtra,India Aurangabad,Maharashtra,
India
nehapandya90@gmail.com Vitthal.bhosale999@gmail.com rmautee@gmail.com
Abstract
In past patient suffering from any disease or physiological
disorder is difficult to monitor patient health. Now a day’s
patients are monitored continuously through wireless
network. In ICU’s nurses or other care taker may not be
available for constant monitoring of patient health due to
this patient health becomes critical condition. To avoid this
continuous monitoring of patient health using wireless
network this device is developed. Goal of this system is to
monitor patient’s blood pressure, heart beat rate, body
temperature, body position. These all health data
continuously read by ARM cortex M3 Processor. Processor
is connected to different sensors and these sensor values
continuously read and display these health data on LCD
and Remote PC. If sensors value of patient changes to
abnormality level then read values of patient are messaged
to doctor’s mobile via GSM. It helps to monitor patient
continuously at anywhere and anytime.
Keywords: Blood Pressure, Heart Beat Measurement,
Body Temperature Measurement, Body Position
Measurement.
I.INTRODUCTION
Earlier it is difficult to constantly monitor patient
wirelessly. Need of patient monitoring is in situation
where patient is unstable physiological regulatory
systems, in life threatening conditions, critical
Physiological state. The aim of patient monitoring is
to give warning of early or dangerous disease.
Monitoring of Patient’s blood Pressure, Heart beat
rate, body temperature, body position constantly is
difficult in ICU’s of hospital. Monitoring is nothing
but observation of disease, condition or one or
several medical parameters over time.
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Due to constant monitoring of patient health medical
staff is able to get information about continuous
changes in patient health. Earlier nurse are available
for continuous monitoring of patient but now a day’s
various technologies available to monitor patient
health continuously. Existing Monitoring system are
wearable wireless and remote monitoring systems.
Sensors are used to read physiological parameters of
patient body. These sensors value directly measure
by any controller or processor. These values are
passes towards controlling unit such as Remote PC or
LCD via Bluetooth, WI-If or Xbee technology, so
that doctors monitor patient in real time.
Proposed system is portable and can be used at home
also. System consists of LPC 1768 Processor which
is having inbuilt ADC. LPC 1768 is ARM cortex M3
based microcontroller featuring low power
consumption it directly measures physiological
parameters like blood pressure, heart beat rate, body
temperature and position with the help of sensors.
Display these values on LCD or laptop by RF modem
if these parameters reached at abnormal level then
values are messaged to doctors mobile via GSM.
Device is useful to people who needs constant care.
II STATE OF ART
Various techniques earlier introduced for monitoring
patient health. These techniques used different
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Bluetooth to transmit and receive data from sensors.
Sensor values measured by different controller such
as 8051, ARM Cortex etc
M. Shankar [1] introduced device which monitor
patient’s body position, heart rate, and body
temperature. These all parameters are measured with
the help of sensors. These sensors values read by
ARM cortex processor. Processor send these values
to receiver unit i.e. computer. This system operated
on battery power. This device is not able to detect
patient’s blood pressure and receiver unit is limited to
doctor’s cabin.
Fazluer rahman[2] proposed device which is able to
record height, weight, body temperature, heart rate,
blood oxygen level of patient. Data is collected by
sensors and transferred to computer via wireless
network and it can be accessed by anyone over
internet but this system is large in size and weight,
power consumption is high.
Jens Andreasson[3] introduced remote system for
patient monitoring using Bluetooth. This device able
to monitor patient ECG wirelessly. This system
needs 12 bit ADC and operated at limited range and
fails to detect other parameter of patient body.
Mona kamel[4] introduced secure remote patient
monitoring system. By using this device we can
monitor heart rate, o2 level etc and transmitted data
via Bluetooth technology and data is visualized on
mobile phone and on central server. Here device
having limited processing and storage capabilities of
mobile phone. Bluetooth send data up to some range
means it is distance limited.
III PROPOSED WORK
SENSORS PROCESSOR
GSM
Figure 1: schematic diagram of system
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This device able to monitor patient’s blood pressure,
heart beat rate, body position, body temperature with
the help of various sensors values read by LPC 1768
ARM cortex M3 processor. These measured values
are display on computer and if measured value
increased at abnormality level, it sends alert message
to doctor’s mobile by using GSM.
3.1 Sensors
3.1.1Blood Pressure & Heart Beat Rate
Here SUNROM technology 4118 sensor used to
measure Blood pressure and heart beat rate. Sensor
measure systolic, diastolic and pulse readings. This
sensor worn on wrist. When power supply given to
device sensor start working and when it measure first
high pulse that one is patient’s systolic value. After
getting high pulse it record constant value, when
sensor record another high pulse that one is diastolic
value. In this way sensors record patient’s systolic
and diastolic value. Heart beat rate is counted by
number of pulse per minute. This vale is display on
LCD, Laptop. If these values increased at
abnormality level then those values are messaged to
doctors mobile.
3.1.2 Body Position
Here MMA 6361L accelerometer used to measure
patient Position such as patient is in sitting or
sleeping mode.
WSN LCD/ REMOTE
PC
MOBILE
 3.1.3 Body Temperature
Lm35 sensor used to measure body temperature of
patient which has self heating capability
3.2 Processor
Here LPC176 ARM Cortex-M3 is a general purpose,
32-bit microprocessor, which offers high
performance and very low power consumption. LPC
1768 Processor is having inbuilt ADC and fast
frequency response so that we get output of sensor
reading at LCD and Remote PC very fast.
3.3 WSN
IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
All parameter values read with the help of ARM
cortex M3 processor. Receiver unit is computer and
mobile Phone .This device able to monitor patient
health wirelessly by using RF transmitter and
receiver which having range limitation. It means it
able to transfer and receive data at 2.4 GHz band up
to 30 meter distance.
3.4 GSM
Here Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz is
used. It controlled via AT Commands, which help to
send patients monitoring data to doctor’s mobile
phone.

Microprocessor LPC 1768 directly measures input data of various sensors and directly display output at LCD,
Remote Pc and alert message to doctor’s mobile phone.

Blood Pressure Chart

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Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8
SBP 120 128 118 120 130 118 120 128
DBP 80 84 76 80 78 76 80 84
BPM 80 71 72 82 71 86 83 77
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Figure 2: Blood Pressure Chart

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Graphical representation of patient’s Blood Pressure value such as Systolic (SBP), Diastolic( DBP), Heart beat
rate(BPM) according to 8 days shown in above figure. Blood pressure sensor having output 3 volt of logic level.

For varying temperature, the voltage across the LM35 temperature sensor and reading at LCD screen was observed.
They were tabulated which is shown below

Temperature °c Theoretical Output Voltage Practical Output Voltage(mV) LCD/Remote PC Reading °c

(mV)

25 250 251 25.1

26 260 260.9 26.09

27 270 270.5 27.05

28 280 280.3 28.03

29 290 289 28.9

Table 1: Temperature Sensor readings

At above table, theoretical output voltage and practical output voltage and corresponding LCD reading for different
temperature have been shown. Two output voltages are expected to be same but due to some limitation of LM35 and
other circuit components they are not exactly same. When temperature of patient crosses the critical temperature
(40°c) it is expected that message will send to doctor’s mobile phone.

Calculation of temperature sensor:

Vin= (Temperature in degree Celsius) × 10 mV,

X= (vin/V fullscale) × (2^10-1)

Example: For 29°c, Vin= 29×10mV=290mv

X= (290mV/1v) × (2^10-1) =296.67

Where X is calculated temperature sensor value. LM 35 Works from 0 to 1 volt.

V CONCLUSION

Device is able to record patient’s systolic, Diastolic, pulse readings, body position, and temperature. If these values
exceed up to some limit it can message to doctor’s mobile so that patient get treatment as early as possible. Patient
can monitor continuously anywhere and anytime. Device helps to get patient treatment as early as possible. System
is able to record physiological parameters on LCD and Remote PC up to 30meter range. To overcome this we have
to increase network range which is very costly so need to design economical network area device. Hence proposed
device is economical and operated at low power.

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 V REFERENCES

[1] M.Shankar “A microchip wireless based wearable physiological parameters monitoring system” international
journal of latest research in science and technology volume2,issue 2: pageNo. 71-74, march-April 2013

[2] F. Rahman,” .Network approach for physiological parameter measurement”, IEEE Trans. Instrum.Meas., vol.
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[3] Jens Andreasson,Mikael Ekstorm, Ali fard,Javier Garcia castano and tord Johnson” remote System For Patient
Monitoring Using Bluetooth”,IEEE trans sensors,vol 1,pp 304-307,2002.

[4] Mona Kamel,sahar fawzy, Ahmed El-bialy, Ahmed Kandil “Secure Remote Patient Monitoring system”, IEEE,
Biomedical Engineering (MECBME), 2011 1st Middle East Conference,21-24 Feb. 2011 ,pp:339 - 342

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