Cardiovascular Monitoring System Using Android-Based Mobile Application with Cloud Firebase

Cardiovascular disease is one of the major causes of death around the world. Continuous surveillance of cardiovascular patients becomes necessary to monitor their heart status outside the hospital by mainly checking their electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. In this paper, we conceived a cardiovascular monitoring system using an Android-based mobile application with Cloud Firebase. The present system is dedicated to remotely monitor cardiovascular patients' hearts and present a decision aid tool to help the physicians to take the appropriate medical actions in case of an abnormal heartbeat. The hardware part of the system communicates with the designed Android-based application, named Healthy, by using the Bluetooth technology. It continuously acquires the ECG data, measures the current patient's heartbeat, send them in real-time and display them on the mobile application. In addition, the Healthy application notifies the attending doctor in the Google Firebase-Cloud in case an abnormal heartbeat occurs. Consequently, the patient would receive an alarm notification on his Smartphone. The conducted experimental results confirmed that the hardware ECG monitoring device works efficiently. In addition, our developed Healthy application is easy to use and flexible for the users. Finally, we simulated an abnormal heartbeat by disconnecting an electrode. The Healthy application sent the corresponding heartbeat to the Cloud and notified both the test subject and the doctor about the abnormal heartbeat.