Novel Wireless Biometric System with Sensor Analysis

Abstract

With increase in complexity of current Health & Disease scenario in society, Modern medical practices greatly relies on technology for analyzing patient’s health condition & for arriving at suitable best possible treatment. Use of technology is greatly assisting medical profession for quick & accurate decisions making but at the same time exponentially increasing medical expenses making it un-accessible to wide range of social class. Statistics reveal that every minute a human is losing his/her life across the globe. Motivation of this paper is to develop efficient & affordable wireless biometric system that can monitor multiple patients’ health parameters simultaneously and can effectively deliver the data to a patient monitoring system where it is stored permanently. It enables the doctors to monitor many parameters of patient’s health, in that our project investigates the potential of wireless biometric system to reliably, wirelessly collect, send and process the temperature & heart rate of multiple patients simultaneously. Thus we have designed and developed a reliable, energy efficient patient monitoring system. Use of suitable wireless communication technique to manage interference & accurately deliver information at user interface (output device) is one of major challenge that is considered here. We have tried to address this challenge by adopting scheduling scheme in data transmission & using unique ID for each patient’s noted parameters. The system also alerts the doctor/nurse of some measured value cross threshold limits. On the basis of monitored data performance evaluation is to be done which helps for performance of sensors. A data storage mechanism employed here become of help as a ready past data reference and remedial action by the doctor. At present, under current medical practice, there is individual patient monitoring system for every patient which makes it expensive, whereas our proposed system uses the same resources to monitor multiple patients, with more comfort and convenience which can pave way to distribute cost of system to multiple patients at the same time maintaining flexibility expected by and useful for the healthcare professionals. This project helps to provide a solution which not only is reliable and flexible but also affordable which is need of time considering huge burden of Medical Expenses which are hardly manageable by for vast range of patients.