B.Sc.
Electrical Engineering Project Proposal
Health Monitoring and Management Using
Internet-of-Things (IOT)
Project Supervisor: Dr. Muhammad Salman khan
GROUP MEMBERS:
Syed Faraz Naeem bacha Reg.No: 15JZELE00036
Muhammad Asim khan Reg.No: 15JZELE0006
Aizaz Ali Shah Reg.No: 15JZELE0062
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar
Jalozai Campus
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1) Abstract
Internet of thing have wide spread applications, among them
smart and connected health care is of our interest. Sensor connected to our body or embedded in
our surrounding, make gathering of information which indicates our physical health.
These, aggregated information can significant impact on our health care by bringing a positive
transformative change in it. The availability of data facilitate evolution in practice of medicine,
i.e. from current method of diagnoses to an enhanced and effective prognosis, where diseases can
be diagnosed at incipient stage, coupled with prevention, cure, and overall management of health
instead of diseases.
It also enables personalization, reducing costs, improving outcomes simultaneously.
2) Introduction
Wearable sensors seen to be of great interest in recent year
and large variety sensor is available in market which can be used in personal health care, fitness
and in other related activity. In addition to recreational fitness, researcherhave also considered
there application in remote health monitoring system where patient can get treatment without
visiting doctor’s clinics.
A time in near future where patient can be treated by continuously monitoring there
physiological activity, and on the basis of that information treatment could be done.
When you show up for physical examination, the doctor is not provided only with conventional
lab test, but with also large gather information collected by wearable sensor. On the basis of
these information and available lab test the doctor can make much better prognosis for your
health and present you a most suitable treatment.
Such technology can bring transformation in our health care by drastically reducing cost, while
improving speed and accuracy of diagnoses at same time
3) Literature survey
In Pakistan literature survey was performed to observe
functioning of different medical centers and improvement in health care with introduction of new
technology.The survey revealed that patient record were in a very poor condition and is not
properly managed, also patient referral among various hospitals were more or less based on
paper documentation. Due to lack of facilities, precisely estimation of patient history, the
healthcare quality was inefficient.
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Survey further reveals that patient healthcare can be improved with help of information
technology mainly using electronics health record system .The record can be further be
improved by transferring it to cloud, where it is stored. By doing so the patient can easily present
their history to doctor at any place around the world
4) Methodology
The proposed methodology comprises three parts
1) A wide body area network (WBAN)
2) Communication and networking
3) Observation and measurement
4.1) A wide area network
A wireless area network composed of
sensors which serves as data acquisition. A large variety of information like blood pressure,
temperature heart beat etc gathered by these sensors
4.2) Communication and networking
Sensors transmit these
information to server through a gateway. These information is stored on server for
analysis. Different communicating devices like GSM is used.
4.3) Observation and measurement
Observation and measurement
is to performed on data after retrieval by medical staff. Using similar stored data can
improve observation and measurement. Accurate diagnoses and monitoring of patient
medical condition depend on stored data, which is of high dimension both in time and
in quantity, which make data analysis frustrating and prone to error. So technique
like data mining and visualization is to be used. Modern electronics equipments
revolutionize the conventional healthcare, where sensor not only collects information
but also exchange with one another and send it to cloud.
5) SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
System architecture comprises three
main components
1) Data acquisition:
2) Data transmission
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3) Cloud processing
Fig Source IOT based paper
5.1) Data acquisition
The acquisition of information is performed by multiple wearable sensors
i.e. temperature, blood pressure and respiratory sensor which collect and send it to network
through certain interfaces like wifi, blutooth etc
5.2) Data transmission
In this step data is transmitted from patient to data center of healthcare
organization where data is stored with aided security and privacy
In this case data collected by sensors is stored on web server or cloud i.e amazon or thing
speak.com .Server is receiving data through GSM or some other interface which in turn receive
data from wearable sensors
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5.3) Cloud processing
Cloud processing has three distinct stages
Storage
Analytics
Visualization
5.3.1) Storage
Data is to be stored. The stored data may include record general of general
physical health as well as medical assists for diagnosis
5.3.2) Analytics
Analytics is to be performed on stored data regarding patient health and
its diseases
5.3.3) Visualization
Visualization is key element for such system because it is
impractical for physician to put such high volumetric data into consideration. Visualization
process convert data into an easily understandable and digestible format which is essential for
clinical practice
6) Project plan
Tasks Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Progress
Searching √
Collection and
study of
Literature
Components
collection
Assembling
Designing
Hardware
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Testing
Software Testing
Progress report
Final report and
presentation
Refrences
A. Benharref and M. Serhani, “Novel cloud and SOA-based framework
for E-Health monitoring using wireless biosensors,” IEEE Journal of Biomed. and Health Inf.,
vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 46–55, Jan 2014.
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