Smart Healthcare Monitoring System Using Wireless Body Area Network

The world population is increasing day by day and number of chronic diseases are on rise. Through Internet of Things (IoT) enabled devices such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth-LE, health professionals can change the way they detect the illness and provide innovative ways for treatment. Real-time monitoring with smart sensors can save many lives during medical emergency. Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) are widely used to monitor psychological parameters of an individual such as temperature, heart rate, electrocardiogram (ECG), brain activity and other vital symptoms. Smart Sensors are embedded in a smart watch which continuously monitors the patient's vital signs and data is delivered to smart phone in real time. If any of the psychological parameters fluctuates then an alert message is delivered to the hospital so that preventive measure can be taken. Doctors can provide medical consultation to their patients no matter how far they are located through remote healthcare monitoring. All the data is stored on the cloud that can be referenced anytime to learn the medical history of the patient This can lead to increase in quality of life. This paper examines the research work carried out on Wireless Body Sensor Network for real-time monitoring of user's psychological parameters which provide valid and reliable information.