Location Aware Health Monitoring System For Emergency Cases

Patient monitoring system has drawn considerable attention of the researchers for the last few years. An effective patient monitoring system should be able to record, display, and transmit patients’ critical physiological data to their healthcare service providers from anywhere at any time. Recently, mobile technology has led to significant innovations in this field ranging from implantable devices to smart applications. In this work, we present an innovative patient monitoring system that integrates an application and wearable devices to monitor the patients’ critical physiological data. In addition, it uses the global positioning system (GPS) so that patients and healthcare service providers can track each other. We have field tested our system and the results show that our proposed system can send vital physiological data as well as the location information of patients to a remote healthcare service provider with a high precision. The system also generates alarm messages for the patients and it also assists the patients to locate the nearby healthcare service providers. The location information is automatically updated with the patients’ movement.