Development of Blood Oxygen Level Heart Rate and Temperature Monitoring System by Using ESP32 (2)
Development of Blood Oxygen Level Heart Rate and Temperature Monitoring System by Using ESP32 (2)
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Universiti Kuala Lumpur British
54100 Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra 54100 Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra Malaysian Institute
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Selangor, Malaysia Selangor, Malaysia
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Abstract— Telehealth plays an even greater role in global sectors such as the fast-food industry or unhealthy lifestyles.
healthcare delivery today. Ever since the pandemic strikes the In particular, 80 per cent of the 35 million deaths associated
world, the use of healthcare monitoring systems has a massive with chronic diseases for 2019 would occur in regions with
boost significantly. This paper aims to develop a prototype of a low and medium incomes. Men and women are infected
health monitoring device that can be put at a patient home to younger than in countries with high incomes. In the next ten
replace traditional physical checkups at the hospital by using years, premature deaths are estimated to cost billions of
MAX30102 PPG module and Infrared temperature sensor with dollars in countries such as China, India and the Russian
the objective to derive PPG signal into basic health parameters Federation. In several nations, the urgency of risk mitigation
such as heart rate and oxygen saturation from the patient
and disease prevention strategies is working, and a series of
through MAX30102 and to test the accuracy of those
low-cost, high-impact initiatives can be applied step-by-step
parameters with hospital patient monitor. The experiment is
done by comparing each parameter for 30 seconds in both [8].
devices using index fingers coming from 13 participants. From Developed countries such as the United States, the United
the results obtained, although heart rate suffers motion artefact Kingdom, and Canada are experiencing a nursing shortage as
compared to the oxygen saturation, each accuracy is still the number of critically ill patients rises. The issue gets even
excellent with 89.2 and 97.6 percent. In conclusion, MAX30102 more complicated. Increasing the number of chronically sick
PPG and ECG module can get initial health reading through the
patients and the shortage of healthcare staff will increase the
PPG signal and solve the problems mentioned.
cost of services in the healthcare sector. A variable method is
Keywords—Telehealth, ESP32, monitoring required to define patient management supervision and
treatment while minimizing costs by delivering home health
monitoring and care, called home telemonitoring.
I. INTRODUCTION One of the technologies that can assist in the health
monitoring system is the IoT. Blood oxygen saturation, pulse
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of connected
rate, body temperature, heart rate, and body temperature are
devices and sensors that extends the internet and other
all vital indicators that should be examined on a regular basis
network connections. For example, it can connect to alarms,
[9].
gates, cars, and other objects with high-level determining and
scientific capabilities. Many industries, including automotive This paper is organized as follows: Section II reviews the
[1], agriculture [2], [3], healthcare [4]–[6] and many more previous related work on healthcare IoT systems. Section III
have embraced the IoT. The healthcare industry is one such describes the methodology of this prototype development and
trending field that provides good health services to all people Section V explains the experiment that has been conducted
worldwide. and a brief discussion of the results. Section IV finally
concludes.
Health by nature, is an illness or injury-free indication.
Advancing biomedical technology and creating a longer life II. RELATED WORKS
span is crucial to maintaining the quality of life. Healthcare is
the advancement of health in diverse medical fields through The human body consists of a signal which carries
prevention, diagnosis, and treatment offered by health specific information about the physiological system and can
practitioners. In the last 50 years, people aged 60 and above be examined by measuring the vital signs. Based on the
have tripled numbers and are predicted to be almost two analysis of several previous research, the trend is much more
billion by 2050 [7]. focused on measuring blood oxygen (SpO2) [10], heart rate
and temperature measurement. While other researchers also
In the 21st century, chronic illnesses such as coronary
include the measurement of blood pressure and ECG
conditions, heart failure (HF), high blood pressure, or obesity
measurement [11].
grew along with growth technologies in different capitalist
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Subject 1 24 95 86 9
Subject 2 24 105 92 12
Subject 3 22 85 79 7
Subject 4 22 63 63.75 1
Fig. 7. Duratool DR3055 non-contact IR thermometer
Subject 5 22 78 77.5 1
Subject 8 23 65 62.75 3
Subject 9 22 87 83 4.5
Subject 10 23 84 87.5 4
Subject 12 23 90 27.5 70
Subject 13 22 98 82 16
B. SpO2
The raw PPG signal produced by MAX30102 is shown in Table II tabulates the SpO2 data collected from subjects.
Fig. 8. However the signal is noisy due to increasing optical The patient monitor's highest value is 100% oxygen saturation
density and path length of illuminated tissue while decreasing collected from all subjects except for subjects 4 and 5. The
the light intensity of the photodetector so that the PPG signal lowest is 97% oxygen saturation collected from subject 5. The
is correlated with blood volume. Therefore, it is hard to see spo2 data collection.
systolic and diastolic peaks from the produced signal. To solve
this issue, we create an analogue interface circuit as the op- Subject Age Patient Product Error
amp will work as a current to voltage converter. Also, series Monitor (%) Prototype (%) (%)
of filter has been developed to remove excess of noisy PPG
signal. For SpO2, the measurement conducted base on Eq (1). Subject 1 24 100 98 2
Meanwhile for the MLX90614 IR sensor, no changes are
Subject 2 24 100 96 4
required to be done on raw signal and measurement was
directly converted by microprocessor based on input voltage Subject 3 22 100 98 2
from the sensor.
A. Heart Rate Subject 4 22 99 98 1
Table I compares the heart rate parameter between the Subject 5 22 97 100 3
patient monitor and the product prototype. There are 13
subjects from ages 22 to 24 years old, two subjects with age Subject 6 23 100 97.8 2.2
24 years old, seven patients with age 22 years old and four
patients with age 23 years old for all obtained data. The patient Subject 7 22 100 98 2
monitor's highest value is 105 BPM collected from subject 2,
Subject 8 23 100 98.9 1
and the lowest is 63 BPM collected from subject 4. For the
product prototype, the highest value is 101.5 BPM from Subject 9 22 100 98.73 1.3
subject 11, and the lowest is 27.5 BPM from subject 12.
The low reading in patient 12 is suspected due to poor Subject 10 23 100 98.81 1.1
sensor placement during heart rate measurement. All test
subject has been instructed not to move their finger and in rest Subject 11 22 100 98 2
position throughout the measurement. The measurement was
Subject 12 23 100 98.9 1
conducted for 2 minutes straight to ensure reading accuracy.
Subject 13 22 100 93 7
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For the product prototype, the highest value is 100% The difference between the highest and lowest value of
oxygen saturation from subject 5, and the lowest is 93% from the infrared thermometer is 3.2 °C, and for the product
subject 13. prototype is 6.89 °C. The infrared thermometer average value
Subject 5 oxygen saturation on the product prototype is is 34.83 °C and 33.33 °C for the product prototype.
excellent. Unfortunately, the value on the patient monitor is Meanwhile, the average error value is 5.2% with 95%
97% which is peculiar because the patient monitor is accuracy.
standardize medical equipment with better accuracy and filter As the discussion for results tabulated in Table I and II,
than the product prototype. Upon investigation, subject 5's the comparative measurement was conducted has shown a
finger was moving inside the patient monitor finger clip, high percentage similarity with medical grade equipment. It
creating motion artefacts that increased light level changes. calculated that for heart rate, the average similarity recorded
The inadequate signal is caused by motion artefact makes the at 89%, while for SpO2 at 98%. The reason for much lower
patient monitor difficult to calculate oxygen saturation, as heart rate measurement accuracy, although coming from the
shown in Fig. 4. same sensor MAX30102 is movement artefact sensitivity.
C. Body Temperature The heart rate measurement is very sensitive to the motion of
the test subject's finger. Another issue related to measurement
is the method of both sensors in capturing the light produced
There are plenty of places to check the body's
by a red and infrared LED. For MAX30102, the sensor uses
temperature, such as the forehead, mouth, and ear. However,
reflective method for detection of light while the patient
this experiment will use the index finger to capture body
monitor uses transmission of light through the finger [21].
temperature since the index finger has the most arteriovenous
Meanwhile, body temperature measurements indicate
anastomoses or AVAs. It regulates vasoconstriction and
below range of normal body temperature around 36.5 to 37.5
vasodilatation more than the rest of the body surface. The °
finger also correlates with corneal temperature as blood flow C. Both IR temperature sensors under performance mainly
is parallel with the finger and the eye. due to two major factor: distance of the subject with the
Table III depicts the body temperature data for 13 sensor and the environment where measurement is taken.
These two factors contribute massively on producing
subjects. The infrared thermometer's highest value is 36.7 °C
accurate body temperature measurements. Furthermore, it is
collected from the subject, and the lowest is 33.5 °C from
reported by Hsuan et al [22] that measurement of core body
subject 10. For the product prototype, the highest value is
temperature by using IR sensor probably requires strict
35.6 °C from subject 3, and the lowest is 28.71°C from standard operating procedure (SOP) due to this issue. They
subject 13. also suggest that all measurement related to IR sensor
temperature has to be undergo the black box method to ensure
TABLE II. THE BODY TEMPERATURE DATA COLLECTION
accuracy.
Subject 13 22 34 30 11
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