Wireless Health Monitoring System: The Vital Transmitter
Abdelmageed, Shaima (2012)
Abdelmageed, Shaima
2012
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With the marvelous growth of technology developed through years of telecommunication engineering researches, the need of deploying these technologies into the different life sectors became a fact. As a consequence, during the last decade, wireless telecommunication became a solid partner of the healthcare applications, providing remote medical monitoring among other services and capabilities. Under the hope of constructing a continuous, instantaneous remote medical monitoring system, wireless sensors started a new era of developed devices, from external hand-held devices to implantable chips that send out the vital signs of the patient to certain receivers. As well, the transmitting of the signal has gradually improved from Radio frequency identification (RFID) to Bluetooth combined with mobile communication General packet radio service (GPRS), until this system eventually invaded the market and opened a new business opportunities with different products competing for more reliability and continuity.
This master’s thesis “Wireless Health Monitoring System-Vital Transmitter” aimed to build a similar system, which consists of vital sign measurement device featured with a built-in low energy Bluetooth (BLE) that was used to send the vital sign to the user’s mobile phone, the mobile phone runs a software program that is capable of contacting emergency numbers through Short Message Service (SMS), which will be sent automatically when the read vital sign exceeds a certain threshold or drops below another threshold. The software provides a short record of the read results and gives the user the option of setting the emergency numbers manually. The targeted group of users of this project is senior people and young children whom usually represent the main scope of urgent remote medical monitoring, to serve this target, the software sets the thresholds according to the user’s age, which is inserted by the patient himself.
The master’s thesis promised to fulfill the continuity and reliability required by such wireless health monitoring systems, the continuity is highly considered via assuring long battery life for both the device through minding the operating mode, frequency of transmission, and BLE, also for the mobile phone through implementing BLE and minding the frequency of transmission. The heart rate measurement was chosen as a case study for the Vital Transmitter, for the sake of experimenting the reliability of the system and work on enhancements.
In this master’s thesis, we describe the system architecture from a hardware viewpoint and detail the software (Android based program) conducted to provide the project’s service and discuss the setups and arrangements required through the work.
This master’s thesis “Wireless Health Monitoring System-Vital Transmitter” aimed to build a similar system, which consists of vital sign measurement device featured with a built-in low energy Bluetooth (BLE) that was used to send the vital sign to the user’s mobile phone, the mobile phone runs a software program that is capable of contacting emergency numbers through Short Message Service (SMS), which will be sent automatically when the read vital sign exceeds a certain threshold or drops below another threshold. The software provides a short record of the read results and gives the user the option of setting the emergency numbers manually. The targeted group of users of this project is senior people and young children whom usually represent the main scope of urgent remote medical monitoring, to serve this target, the software sets the thresholds according to the user’s age, which is inserted by the patient himself.
The master’s thesis promised to fulfill the continuity and reliability required by such wireless health monitoring systems, the continuity is highly considered via assuring long battery life for both the device through minding the operating mode, frequency of transmission, and BLE, also for the mobile phone through implementing BLE and minding the frequency of transmission. The heart rate measurement was chosen as a case study for the Vital Transmitter, for the sake of experimenting the reliability of the system and work on enhancements.
In this master’s thesis, we describe the system architecture from a hardware viewpoint and detail the software (Android based program) conducted to provide the project’s service and discuss the setups and arrangements required through the work.