Auto health monitoring system

Inspiration

We all know that doctors, healthcare workers are trying to do their best to fight against COVID-19. Being an engineer we also have some responsibility to our society. So in this horrible situation we have to step forward to do something for the society and help people to fight against COVID-19.

Problem statement

As per the guidelines of World Health Organization (WHO), “Home quarantine / Quarantine in non-health care settings is intended for anyone who believes they have been exposed to COVID-19 and are required to be home quarantined to prevent community transmission”. Now it is not possible to monitor so many people who have mild symptoms or who believes that they have been exposed to COVID-19 during their ‘Home Quarantine’ period. So, if we have an auto monitoring system by which a patient’s health condition can be monitored or recorded by which doctors can come to a decision that if the patient is required to be hospitalize for further treatment or they are safe in other case.

What I have built

What I have planned to build is having a portable or wearable device that patient will be wearing throughout the day. The device will be consisting of sensors to sense the body temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat or other certain parameters. The sensors will generate data and then that sensor data will be captured by a node mcu. We will develop an application that will receive the data sent by node mcu and store it into a database. After consecutive 14 days, our application will make 14 days statistics and plot a graph based on daily recorded data and that will be sent to local hospital or to the doctor. The statistical data or the graph will be able to identify that whether the patient health condition is critical or not or he/she is required to be hospitalized or not for further treatment.

How I built it

First I have planned to make a portable device and connect it to the various sensors to sense the data from human body. Then connect it with a programmable device like node mcu. Now I will build an android app that can receive the data generated by the sensors and sent from the node mcu and store the data into a database. And using Machine Learning models the app will run a productive analysis on the data to predict the patient's health condition.

Challenges I ran into

The availability of the necessary products in the market is a big challange to me. And also not having a team support is a big problem.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I recently grabbed the 6th place on the innovatieve idea competition Eradicate, organized by JIS college of engineering, Kalyani, in association with IIC.

What I learned

Programming and automations using devices like node mcu, developing android app and implementing ML models on it etc.

What's next for Auto health monitoring system

We can further upgrade the functionality of the application where after storing the consecutive 14 day’s data, it can be able to run a predictive analysis on the dataset stored on the database and then it will automatically predict whether the patient health is so critical as to be hospitalized or not.

Built With

• android
• kotline
• nodemcu
• sensors
• tensorflow