IOT based Smart Health Monitoring System for Chronic Diseases

This paper describes an IoT based health monitoring system for chronic diseases. Big data analysis has become an essential element while dealing with IoT based monitoring of chronic diseases and for this, an envisaged low-cost scalable architecture of cloud computing can provide very useful assistance in the maintenance of electronic health records, big data analysis and telemedicine considering few of its advantages including on-demand resource allocation, unlimited storage capacity, backup, and recovery.The envisaged system consists of a body sensor network that collects real-time health data from temperature, SpO
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and accelerometer sensor. The Particle Photon works as a sensing node that processes this real -time data using in-built ARM processor and sends it over to the cloud using WIFI. The data can be visualized on the dashboard using the Adafruit web server. Here the cloud can work as a sink node that handles data storage and computing. The system uses MQTT protocol which is Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol. The MQTT broker/web server works as a mediator between publisher and subscriber which accepts sensor feed data and publishes it for the subscriber. The subscriber in the system is laptop / PC and health data can be accessed on PC using Login ID and password. The system is very useful for patients suffering from cardiac arrest, osteoporosis, and asthmatic problem.