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Analysis on Healthcare System using IoT

Su Hlaing Phyo, Kyaw Zin Latt
Department of Electronic Engineering, Mandalay Technological University, Mandalay, Myanmar

How to cite this paper: Su Hlaing Phyo | ABSTRACT

Kyaw Zin Latt "Analysis on Healthcare In this research, the proposed system is to design and construct IoT based
System using IoT" Published in healthcare monitoring system using ESP8266 Node MCU that supports
International Journal of Trend in healthcare system under circumstances for people. IoT based healthcare
Scientific Research and Development monitoring system is evaluated for certain parameter like heartbeat and
(ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456- temperature. This system consists of Node MCU, Temperature Sensor, Heartbeat
6470, Volume-3 | Sensor, IoT, SPSS, Thinger.io cloud sever and mobile phone. Node MCU board
Issue-4, June 2019, collects temperature and heartbeat data from the sensors and transfer wirelessly
pp.1336-1339, URL: to IoT website via internet connection [1]. This data can be transmitted to the
https://www.ijtsrd.c data set linked with SPSS software and this software can be calculated the future
om/papers/ijtsrd25 data for people using linear regression method. So, Mobile health system helps to
140.pdf IJTSRD25140 know health conditions in real time to people. The aim of this system is to
improve the healthcare system by using internet and easily to measure their
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International Journal of Trend in
Scientific Research and Development Keywords: Node MCU, Temperature Sensor, Heartbeat Sensor, Internet of Things,
Journal. This is an Open Access article SPSS Software
distributed under
the terms of the I. INTRODUCTION
Creative Commons The best healthcare system is very important in every country. If the healthcare
Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) system is poor, that means the image of this country will not develop. In the
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ developing country, people have lower income. Cost effective healthcare system
by/4.0) has been increasing demand to use in low and middle income countries [3].

So, people need to work for their family and their life to get websever. IoT provide the interaction between things and
more income. The lower cost devices can be provided poor microcontroller using network.
people to be healthy and happy in their life. This system is
III. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
IoT based healthcare monitoring system. Therefore, this
A. Temperature Sensor (DS18B20)
proposed system makes healthcare system to be developed.
Temperature sensor is a digital thermometer .It provides 9
IoT is connected with Node MCU by the combination of all
bits to 12 bits Celsius temperature measurements. The
sensors. IoT based healthcare monitoring system can
temperature sensor communicates over a one-wire bus that
transmit the data directly to the cloud using internet
by definition requires only one data line (and ground) for
connection. Various habits cause diseases. Among the most
communication with a central microprocessor. In addition,
common chronic diseases can be measured and monitored
the temperature sensor can derive power directly from the
that are blood pressure, temperature, heartbeat and other at
data line and requiring voltage from 3V to 5.5V. Each device
home. Node MCU is a microcontroller device which consist
has a unique 64 bit serial code stored in one board ROM .It
network connection and it is a small smart device. It can
can measure temperatures ranging from -55C to +125 C (-
program in Arduino IDE like Arduino IO hardware. On the
67F to+257F) with an accuracy of + or – 0.5 C in the range of
other hand, it is connected with sensors then the data to
-10C to +85C.
transfer wirelessly to cloud. The data can be used in SPSS to
calculate the future data. Linear regression is very important
method for people to predict health condition. If health
condition will be known in healthcare, it can be prevented
lives from unhealthy. By implementing this system, it will
offer an inexpensive system for people’s health monitoring.

II. INTERNET OF THINGS

IoT devices are used in many application fields which make
the users more comfortable life. Internets of Things is the
emerging paradigm which contain huge amount of smart
object and smart devices connected to the internet for
communication with each other[6]. IoT is simply the
network of interconnected devices which embedded with
sensors, software, network connectivity, actuators and
necessary electronics that able to collect and transmit to the
Fig. 1 Temperature Sensor

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B. ESP8266 Node MCU applications .Thinger.io is use to monitor the heart beat and
Node MCU is an open -source firmware and development kit temperature at any time.
that helps us to prototype our IoT product within a few lua
B. Statistical Package for Social Sciences
script lines. Node MCU is an also ESP8266 wifi
(SPSS)Software SPSS statistics is a software package used for
microcontroller at 80MHz and at 3.3V logic. It is widely used
the analysis of statistical data. SPSS is commonly used in
in IoT applications. We can program the microcontroller
healthcare, marketing and education research .The types of
using the Arduino IDE software for an easy to run Internet of
data analysis is widely used using SPSS software. Common
Things .The features are open-source, interactive,
sources mainly include survey results, scientific research
programmable, low cost, simple, smarts and wi-fi enabled
results and other files. SPSS provides data analysis for
.Node MCU also like Arduino hardware IO which can
descriptive and bivariate statistics, numeral outcome
dramatically reduce the redundant work for configuring and
predictions and predictions for identifying groups. The
manipulating hardware code like Arduino.
software also supports data transformation, graphing and
prediction.
V. BLOCK DIAGRAM OF THE SYSTEM
The block diagram of overall system is shown in Fig.
This block diagram consists of two sensors which measures
heartbeat and body temperature of people which is
connected with ESP8266 Node MCU microcontroller [2]. It
gets 5V DC power supply from 12V battery by reducing with
voltage regulator. Both temperature and heartbeat from the
Fig. 2 ESP8266 Node MCU Node MCU are displayed in the thinger.io by using internet
connection and then can be watched via mobile phone.
C. Heartbeat Sensor
Heartbeat sensor circuit comprises ITR9904, LED, Resistor,
LM358, voltage regular and 12V battery. ITR9904 consists of
an IR light emitting diode as the transmitter and Photo diode
as the receiver .The LED needs to be of super bright intensity
because maximum light passes and spreads if a fingertip
placed on the ITR9904.The IR LED transmits an infrared
light into the fingertip then reflected to the photo diode from
the blood inside the finger arteries [8]. So, the heart rate
signal can be obtained by ITR9904 device. In order to
calculate the heart rate based on the blood flow to the
fingertip .A heartbeat sensor is assembled with the help of
LM358 op-amp for monitoring the heartbeat pulses. LM358
IC device used to be filter weak signal from receiver. This
device has two low pass filters that each filter has 100gain.
This gain is good enough to convert the weak signal to the
heart beat signal. This heart beat sensor circuit can be Fig. 4 Overall Block Diagram of Proposed System
measured the pulse heart rate up to 140.4 BPM because it
used 2.34Hz frequency range. Heart rate is the number of
heartbeats per unit of time typically expressed as beats per
minutes (BPM).Heart rate can vary as the body’s need to
absorb oxygen and excrete carbon dioxide changes during
exercise or sleep.

Fig. 3 Heartbeat Sensor

IV. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

A. Thinger.io The thinger.io platform is an open source
platform ofthe internet of things. It provides a ready to use
scalable cloud infrastructure for connecting things. Users can
start controlling their devices from the internet in minutes
without worrying about the required cloud infrastructure.
The thinger.io cloud support IoT devices with other
application like web server, mobile phones or desktop Fig. 5 Flow Chart of Heartbeat and Temperature
Sensors

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Fig. 5 shows the flow chart of heartbeat and temperature Fig. 8 shows heartbeat and temperature data on the
sensors. When the system is started, it will first connect thinger.io. Heartbeat is 84 BPM and Temperature is 96 ºF in
serial port. After we can be checked wifi connection. If device mobile phone.
gets internet connection, IoT based healthcare monitoring
device can be measured data by touching human’s fingertip. A. Analysis using Linear Regression Method
The data from the Node MCU will send to thinger.io ( IoT Regression is a statistical technique to determine the linear
platform). On the other hand, we can see that data on the relationship between two or more variables. Regression is
thinger.io cloud using mobile phone. primarily used for prediction and estimate the value of one
variable based on the value of another variable .This is called
VI. TEST AND RESULT
linear regression analysis. Linear regression analysis is used
in statistics to find the future data by using raw data in SPSS
[5]. It has two linear regression methods. There are simple
linear regression and multiple linear regressions. This
proposed method is simple linear regression .For simple
linear regression,

where,
Y=dependent variable (predicted variable)
a =intercept of Y
X=independent variable (predictor value)
b=slope of X

TABLE 1 SAMPLE Data FOR HEARTBEAT

Fig. 6 Hardware Implementation of the Proposed Day Date Time Heart Beat
System
8:00AM 80 BPM
12:00PM 88 BPM
4:00PM 92 BPM
1 27.2.2019
8:00PM 72 BPM
8:00AM 80 BPM
12:00PM 84 BPM
4:00PM 92 BPM
2 28.2.2019
8:00PM 72 BPM
8:00AM 80 BPM
12:00PM 84 BPM
3 1.3.2019 4:00PM 92 BPM
8:00PM 88 BPM

TABLE 2 SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION METHOD

Fig. 7 Testing IoT Based Healthcare Monitoring System

with Thinger.io Cloud
Fig. 6 shows hardware implementation of the proposed
system in my research. Fig. 7 illustrates testing IoT based
healthcare monitoring system with thinger.io cloud. TABLE 3 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

TABLE 4 MODEL SUMMARY

Fig. 8 Heartbeat and Temperature Show on the

Thinger.io

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TABLE 5 COEFFICIENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author would like to express special thanks to Dr.Kyaw
Zin Latt, Associate Professor, Department of Electronic
Engineering for his valuable suggestion, supervision,
encouragement and sharing his experience to write this
research. And also, the author is also thankful to all of her
teachers from Department of Electronic Engineering,
Mandalay Technological University.

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