International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
E-ISSN: 2769-2507
Volume 3, 2021
Integrating Emerging Network Technologies to Heart Rate Monitoring System to Investigate Transmission Stability and Accuracy : Preliminary Results
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Abstract: Monitoring patients’ condition is one of the crucial tasks in any hospital to ensure patients are in good and stable condition. Conventional method carried out by nurses/doctors especially on measuring blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, body temperature and respiratory rate are conducted in every four hours interval in most hospitals in Malaysia. This will lead to serious problem if in between this interval patients’ condition is becoming critical. This paper presents preliminary work on real time monitoring on patients heart rate from remote location using Wireless Sensor Network. Three subjects of the same age group were chosen and their heart rates were monitored at sitting and laying positions. RF and Zigbee networks were used as communication medium to transmit data to remote location. These readings were bench marked with conventional handheld heart beat reader to investigate which method is producing accurate and stable readings. After few readings were taken it was found that Zigbee network is able to produce stable and accurate readings comparable to handheld reader.
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Keywords: heart rate, real-time monitoring, wireless monitoring, Zigbee, RF Network,Wireless Sensor Network
Pages: 21-26
International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, E-ISSN: 2769-2507, Volume 3, 2021, Art. #4