A real-time life-care monitoring framework: WarnRed hardware and software design

It is shown by many statistical studies that the senior population, especially in developed countries, is in an increasing trend. For many reasons they tend to have in-home health care providers. The recent studies on biomedical information management focused on remote health monitoring frameworks including heart rate monitoring systems, glucose measurements for diabetics, and remote monitoring EEG and ECG. The main purposes of these studies are timely response to emergency situations and ensuring that the person is in a stable condition. In this study, developed via a system-on-chip circuit, we process the data collected from subjects through a temperature sensor and blood pressure sensor. Data are submitted in real time via a wireless secure channel to medical experts. An easy-to-use software interface is also developed as part of the framework.

A real-time life-care monitoring framework: WarnRed hardware and software design

It is shown by many statistical studies that the senior population, especially in developed countries, is in an increasing trend. For many reasons they tend to have in-home health care providers. The recent studies on biomedical information management focused on remote health monitoring frameworks including heart rate monitoring systems, glucose measurements for diabetics, and remote monitoring EEG and ECG. The main purposes of these studies are timely response to emergency situations and ensuring that the person is in a stable condition. In this study, developed via a system-on-chip circuit, we process the data collected from subjects through a temperature sensor and blood pressure sensor. Data are submitted in real time via a wireless secure channel to medical experts. An easy-to-use software interface is also developed as part of the framework.

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  • Conclusions
  • In the last decade, the growing senior population tends to have in-home health care providers because of individual life styles. In this study, a new health care system, called WarnRed, is proposed to follow the medical conditions of the senior population. WarnRed is a MATLAB-based wireless health care system that can be controlled over the Internet.
  • The WarnRed framework provides some significant benefits, as follows:
  • • Wireless Ethernet technology has advantages such as low cost and wide usage.
  • • The PIC microcontroller-based hardware unit has low cost, low power consumption, and high measurement accuracy.
  • • The Web Figure feature provides more visualization and flexibility.
  • • The user does not need MATLAB software to use the WarnRed software since an executable version is also provided.
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science-Cover
  • ISSN: 1300-0632
  • Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 6 Sayı
  • Yayıncı: TÜBİTAK