MIoT-based Smart Cardiac Healthcare Monitoring System for Ubiquitous Healthcare Services

Around the globe, including in Pakistan, cardiovascular diseases are one of the major causes of death. Most deaths from heart diseases occur suddenly, with little time for medical help to be administered. Taking precautions is always required to prevent sudden and accidental deaths. In the existing Internet of Things (IoT) domain for cardiovascular monitoring, just a few heart parameters are addressed, sensors are dispersed, and needs physical patient in hospital for healthcare monitoring purposes. So far, research in Pakistan has not discovered a system that is operational in the cardiac field. Therefore, the greatest solution for the health problems that cardiac patients of all ages, especially the most susceptible segments of the ageing population, currently face in Pakistan is the omnipresent healthcare mechanism for remote and real-time monitoring of fundamental and vital cardiac parameters. Our proposed MIoT kit that is specifically outfitted with all the required cardiac parameters, such as Blood Pressure (BP), Heart Rate (HR), Oxygen Level (SPO2), Temperature (T), and Electrocardiography (ECG). The system also consists of cloud application for continuous and remote patient monitoring and alert mechanism to enable prompt intervention by trained medical staff who will act correctly and at the appropriate moment to keep the frequency of critical events to a minimal. Our proposed methodology has undergone testing in a real medical setting. The testing of our system involves a total of 8 subjects. The results have established that the proposed integrated kit results are significantly closer to the devices utilized at the doctor’s end than the dispersed kit results.