Special Issue - 2016 International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)

ISSN: 2278-0181
ICACT - 2016 Conference Proceedings

Personal Health Monitoring System using

Arduino and Android
Sneha Sravanti D Srivalli. M
4th Year, Department of CSE, 4th Year, Department of CSE,
AMCEC, Bangalore, India AMCEC, Bangalore, India

Srilakshmi. S Sneha Mol. P. S

4th Year, Department of CSE, 4th Year, Department of CSE,
AMCEC, Bangalore, India AMCEC, Bangalore, India

staffing. Tele monitoring involves remotely monitoring the

Abstract- Telemedicine is one of the most trending and advancing
application in medical field which evolved to help the patients and
people to get better and faster medical assistance. For achieving
the best patient health monitoring, networked sensors are either in
the form of wearables or embedded in our living environments to
make possible the process of gathering rich information indicative
of our physical and mental health. This project elaborates the
methodology adopted and highlights various design aspects to be
considered for making patient health monitoring system effective.
In this method, the patient’s vital signs like heart rate, body
temperature rate are captured and are sent to the desired
smartphone application in the form of an alert. In case of
emergency authorized medical staff and doctors also get a
notification message about the patient’s health with a medical
graph if necessary. The doctors can also give advice message to
patient instantly using the smart phone application which uses
Wi-Fi. The proposed system in this project helps to implement the
telemedicine in a much more economic and effective manner.

Keywords: Android, Arduino, Wi-Fi module, smartphone

I. INTRODUCTION

The modern visionary of healthcare industry is to provide

better healthcare to people in a more economic and patient
friendly manner. . Therefore for increasing the patient care
efficiency, there arises a need to improve the patient
monitoring devices. The medical world today faces the most
major problem that is the need of health care provider‟s
presence near the bedside of the patient. In this busy lifestyle,
monitoring our health condition is becoming hectic so
everyone expects to know about their health conditions using
some smart technology which can be easily accessible and is
effective.
As the computers, bio instrumentation, and
telecommunications technologies are being advanced, it has
become feasible to design more the smart devices which help
in tele monitoring systems to record data, acquire data, and
display the data and to transmit the health signals from the
human body to any location. Telemedicine benefits both the
patients with efficient health care facility and even the doctors
who can give better assistance to the people.
It is cost effective. It can increase the efficiency through better
management of patient monitoring, shared health professional

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 Special Issue - 2016 International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)
ISSN: 2278-0181
ICACT - 2016 Conference Proceedings

patient health care. These devices keep track of blood

pressure, heart rate, weight, blood glucose etc. of the patient.
The Telemedicine system consists of customized hardware
and software at both the patient and specialist doctor ends.
This project discusses the advantages
of using android technology and Arduino for patient health
monitoring system. In this technology the data is collected
from a patient, to feed the same to two separate interfaces in
which the patient parameters and details is displayed and
sync the important information to a web based server. This
can in turn be accessed by the doctor using an application
installed in his android phone. He can analyse and send
feedback in order to take preventive measures before he
reaches the hospital in serious case. One message is also
sent to their respective family members through their
smartphone application.
Hence, this project can be used to help the
patients monitoring and assistance by using the trending
technology.

II.LITERATURE SURVEY

In the olden days the patients‟ health was monitored by

catching his /her hand by checking their pulses. As, the time
passed on and the technology for monitoring health got
introduced, the quality of measuring and understanding the
health conditions got better. The development in the
technology grew to such an extent that now a days by
wearing a small device, patient‟s health is getting
monitored. The below figure shows the evolution of
medical equipment‟s.
Number of different research projects explores wireless
sensor networks for monitoring patient health 24 hours. Few
projects are concerned with developing wearable wrist worn
belt, while others have developed based for monitoring
individual patients during daily activity, at home, or in
hospital. Han and Yuo et.al proposed wireless sensor
network based e-health system based on radio-active and
radio-passive positioning [1]. Authors proposed wireless
sensor network application for 24 hours constant monitoring
without disturbing daily activities of elderly people and their
caretakers. In this system both fixed and mobile body
sensors are used. A mixed positing algorithm is proposed to
determine the location of elderly person. The purpose of
positing is to help the system to determine the person
activities and further to make decisions about patient health
condition. U. Anliker, J. A. Ward et.al has developed a

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wearable medical monitoring and alert system aimed at people different sensors. The data collected is then processed
at risk from heart and respiratory diseases [2]. The system by a processing unit like Arduino. The processed data
combines multiparameter measurement of vital signs, online is then transmitted via a wireless data
analysis and emergency detection, activity analysis, and
cellular link to a tele medicine centre in an unobtrusive wrist- IV.ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
worn device.
In this paper, the patients‟ health monitoring system consist
of hardware and software design. The hardware part deals
with the mechanical and construction design, electrical and
electronic circuitry. The software part deals with a
programming of Arduino and smartphone application using
android studio.

Fig 1: Evolution of medical equipment‟s

In this project the patient health monitoring is done

by using a smartphone. The patient‟s heartbeat and
vitals with body temperature is collected by using two
transmission unit such as a Wi-Fi. Fig 3: Architectural Design

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Step 1: Components

1. Arduino UNO R3

2. LM 35 TEMPERATURE SENSOR

3. TCRT5000 HEART BEAT SENSOR

4. ESP 8266 WIFI MODULE

Fig 2: Proposed System
5. UART

6. 2*16 LCD DISPLAY

7. POWER SUPPLY

8. SMARTPHONE
 The patient health monitoring is one of the major concerns
in the health care industry. The telemedicine is one which
would be

Interesting to everyone because of its amazing factors.

Multiple jobs can be done by a single health application
with user‟s intervention. The system has been designed to
take several inputs to measure physiological parameters of
human such as temperature, heart rate and detection of any
fall.
Fig 4: Components
The project is divided into two parts. First the hardware
design and Second the software design. The project activity
Step 2: Wiring of Arduino board must be done step by step. It begins with searching and
collecting information from scientific perspective. The
review is about mechanical structure design and electronic
circuit design also software programming implementation.
The project was begun by finding the concept and idea
related to this title. The information transmitting and
viewing will act according to the module programmed
using the software. It should implement all the required
Fig 5: Wiring of Arduino board behaviour like sensing. Research is done on the mechanical
design, where how a wearable device should be made. The
The Arduino is connected to the two sensors namely Lm 35 software designing starts when the mechanical and the
temperature sensor and tcrt5000 heartbeat sensor. The signals electronic designs are built. The software design mainly
from the sensors are processed in the Arduino and the data is comprises of the code/program of the application of the
transmitted to the smart phone. The data from the Arduino is
system.
transmitted to the smartphone using a Wi-Fi module or shield.
Working Steps
Step 3:System development tools
1. The patient would place his/her finger on the
The above proposed system is being implemented sensing unit.
using the following system development tools:
Arduino Programming
2. The sensors would sense the heartbeat and the
1. arduino-1.0.5-r2-windows (IDE)
vitals with body temperature.
2. C
Android Programming
3. The sensed data rates are sent to Arduino Uno in
1. Android Studio (ADT) the form of signals.
2. Java
4. The Arduino processes the same data and would
transmit the data to the Wi-Fi module.
V. IMPLEMENTATION
5. The Wi-Fi module would then retransmit the data
to the smartphone application.
 6. The alert message will be shown in the smartphone 8. Heart Rate Calculation:
application if the sensed rate is more than the
desired rate. sum =
frequency = F_CPU / (sum / 30)
7. Processing Data through Arduino UNO BPM=frequency * 60 Body
Temperature Calculation Voltage to
Temperature conversion
:
Temperature in degree Celsius, Temp = VI. RESULT ANALYSIS
Output voltage * 0.48828125
tempf=(Temp*1.8)+32 Remote patient monitoring system enables the doctor who is not in the
hospital to know about the details of his patient.Then it is made
available to the doctor. Notification is send in case of abnormality.In
the screen the patient parameters like ECG signal, pulse rate, heart rate,
temperature and SpO2 are displayed simultaneously along with the
corresponding patient‟s name. When a patient detail is selected it gets
displayed on a separate window. In this window each patient‟s details
is particularly viewed. Here two buttons, „save changes‟ and ECG are
included. When a description is added to the field provided and the
save changes button is clicked, the feedback is automatically updated
to the feedback. When the ECG is clicked the corresponding waveform
is obtained.

Fig8: Actual and measured heart rate for 20 mins

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Fig 6: Working of A MIV
In the above figure it can be observed that the measured heart rate is
approximately equal to the actual heart rate.

Fig9: Actual and measured body temperature for 20 mins

Fig 7: Use Case Diagram
In the above figure it can be observed that the measured body
temperature is approximately equal to the actual body temperature.
 VII. CONCLUSION
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