Health care Monitoring System and Analytics Based on Internet of Things Framework

ABSTRACT

The Internet of things (IoT) has been a controversial domain of inquiry in engineering applications since the term was first introduced in 2000. The emergence of IoT also promotes the advancement of health care monitoring from face-to-face consultation to telemedicine or eHealth system. This paper presents the prototyping of an embedded health care monitoring system based on the IoT paradigm. The proposed system architecture consists of three sensors for the measurement of three basic vital signs, i.e. body temperature, pulse rate, and blood pressure. The integrated sensors are interfaced with the Intel Edison platform, and the output readings are transferred to IBM Bluemix for cloud storage and display. Taking advantage of IoT, the condition of the physical body can be monitored remotely and diagnosed with anomalies by doctors. The paper also presents the health care analytical framework related to diabetes and kidney disease. The prediction results from the analytics show the potential of the classification model to be integrated into the proposed system to identify the potential risk of certain diseases at early stages of early treatment. In the preliminary investigation, the accuracy of the developed model to differentiate between a healthy person and patients with diabetes and kidney disease is 90.54% and 87.88%, respectively. Concerning the functionality of the proposed system architecture, the sensors’ measurement accuracy is above 90% compared to conventional medical equipment.

KEYWORDS:

• Artificial neural network
• Data analytic
• Embedded monitoring system
• Health care
• IoT
• Sensor

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are deeply grateful to Universiti Sains Malaysia for providing the necessary facilities for the preparation of the paper.

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Notes on contributors

E. T. Tan

E. T. Tan received his BE (Honours) degree in mechatronic engineering and MSc degree in electronic engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He is currently pursuing PhD degree in the area of embedded system.

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Z. Abdul Halim

Z. Abdul Halim received BE degree in electrical and electronic engineering in 1997 from Universiti Sains Malaysia. She then received M.Sc (Eng) degree in electrical and electronic engineering in 2000. In 2008, she obtained PhD degree in system design from Universiti Sains Malaysia. She is currently a senior lecturer in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her experiences and interest areas are in embedded system design and digital design.

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