Realization of low power telemedicine system to monitor temperature and heart beats

Remote patient health monitoring is the recent trend in biomedical field. Main issues related with such system design are low power and portability. In this paper a data acquisition system to measure body parameters like temperature and heartbeat is developed and experimented. Module functionality is realized using ultra low power digital sensors and LPC 2148 ARM controller. Bluetooth and GSM module is used for wireless real time signal transmission. Power consumption analysis is carried out with respect to module implementation.

I. Introduction

Acute diseases now days can be managed in an outpatient setting, there are clearly medical conditions that require more intensive care and treatment in a hospital. Generally, patients are either admitted to an emergency or urgent care department for acute diagnosis and management or in a general ward to provide non-urgent treatment. The different healthcare environments generate different requirements for an efficient health monitoring. [3], [4] Based on the specific illness as well as the patient's health and economic condition the development in the healthcare system is required. In early days based on the acuity of illness the admitted patients were monitored in the hospitals itself and the recorded data was on paper maintained based on which the examiner used to diagnose the patient.