A Smart Monitoring System for Comatose Patients

Abstract

In coma, the state of unconsciousness, the patient needs constant monitoring of several parameters because it is a critical condition. The vital parameters of these patients must be monitored continuously, so to keep track of their condition. It might be impossible to manually handle the monitoring of numerous coma patients. In the era of technology, the importance of the Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding on the technical, social, and economic fronts towards humankind. A real-time database system has been proposed, by combining IoT and monitoring system that can monitor and store data on different parameters of a patient's various characteristics including heart rate, ECG, temperature, urine level, movement, SpO2 and eye movement or blinking. It can detect as well as store all the data of respective patient. Two methods have been implemented to display the respective parameters of coma patient, one is the developed mobile application which displays all the parameters (heart rate, ECG, temperature, urine level, movement, SpO2 and eye movement or blinking) and the other is LCD which displays only 4 of the respective vitals (heart rate, temperature, urine level and SpO2). In the event of any anomaly, both displays have the ability to generate alerts. The LCD ceases to display the parameters in favor of the alert note while the mobile application generates an alert notification. It is concluded that a human health monitoring system based on the Internet of Things can give individuals daily health management, which is essential for raising the standard and quality of healthcare services.

Keywords— Monitoring system, Coma patients, Biomedical devices, IoT, Remote monitoring, Database.