An Android Application for Geolocation Based Health Monitoring, Consultancy and Alarm System

In the last decade significant progress have been made in smart phone technology as well as in wireless wide area network technologies. Today among a wide population smart phones and mobile applications are considered as indispensable part of daily life. A field that mobile applications have great potential is health monitoring. Health monitoring covers various physiological signals. One of these signals is heart rate which is related to cardiovascular state of the body. Recently producers offer heart rate monitoring with the on board or wearable heart rate sensor. Although the main trend is for individual usage especially in sports, heart rate monitoring can also be benefited in an emergency alarm system for people who have potential risks while doing sports or elderly people. Such a distant monitoring system can be helpful to deliver first aid in emergency cases. Moreover an health expert can monitor states of the patients in real time. In this study we benefit the facilities provided by mobile technology and propose a geolocation-based heart rate monitoring system. The developed mobile application can send alarm message through notification, sms, mail and allows messaging with the health expert for consultancy. Hence if anomalies are observed in heart rate variability during the outdoor activities, emergency information can be delivered in the shortest time and the delays which have crucial affects can be prevented. The same framework can be extended to a more general system including different sensors for monitoring various physiological signals.