Faculty mentor:
Undergraduate researchers:
Nasser Alyaarabi (Team Leader)
Hamad Al-Hajri
Essa Al-Kubaisi
Project Abstract :
On-body communication involves communication among various devices on the body, using surface of the body as propagation channel. It has been touted as a very popular option for applications including health-care, entertainment, surveillance, emergency, sports and military. Devices that can be used for continuous/independent monitoring either for health care or for other applications by a non-specialized user as well as in a controlled environment by professionals are growing area of research. In addition, on-body devices promise to change healthcare from snapshot measurements of physiological parameters to continuous monitoring enabling clinicians to provide guidance on a daily basis, without effecting patient/person daily life activities by obsoleting the complex and bulky wired connections. Considering the increasing interest and popularity of these devices, this project proposes the design and development of a non-invasive wireless health monitoring system that can monitor vital signals (e.g., ECG). The system consists of a wireless ECG kit coupled with Ardueno MEGA board. The ECG kit measures the heart activity and send it to ardueno board, which send the signal to drop box via an available wireless network. In addition to this, an android based mobile application is developed as well, which downloads the stored ECG signal from drop box and display it on the mobile phone. The proposed system will help to reduce the cost and will introduce ease in healthcare monitoring and well-being, which is global challenge nowadays.
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Output: http://ecen403.wix.com/health-monitoring
Publications: Reviewed Conference Paper: “A Non-Invasive Remote Health Monitoring System using Visible Light Communication,” 2nd Int. Symposium on Future Information and Communication Technologies for Ubiquitous HealthCare (Ubi-Health 2015), May 2015.
Project Title and Year: Non-invasive Wireless Health Monitoring System (2014-2015)