Comprehensive Project Report: Tele-health Patient Monitoring System

This project report details the development of a tele-health patient monitoring system. The system utilizes sensors (temperature, heart rate) connected to a microcontroller (Arduino Uno) to collect and transmit patient data via GSM. The report covers various aspects, including the introduction, aims, objectives, project deliverables, methodology (secondary and qualitative), literature survey, system design, implementation of a mobile application, evaluation, and conclusion. The system allows both patients and doctors to access real-time health information securely. The project addresses issues like long waiting times and information loss in traditional healthcare settings. The project includes discussions on data protection, information ethics, and the benefits for both internal (project team) and external (patients, medical staff) stakeholders. It also outlines project resources, schedules, and the technologies used (PHP, MySQL, testing tools, and big data analytics). The report highlights the advantages of the proposed system over existing methods and includes a detailed literature review of similar systems. The project's goal is to improve patient care through efficient and accessible health data monitoring.

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Abstract
Monitoring system was mainly used in healthcare services. This project clearly explains how
patient information will be monitored and get accessed. It can be viewed by the patient as well as doctor
efficiently. Monitoring system uses the different sensors to sense the patients’ information. The sensors
that are used here was temperature sensor, heart rate sensor, etc.…Data are collected by sensors.
Microcontroller helps to perform the operations and it is very easy for research activities. Global System
for Mobile Communication (GSM) will be using for data transferring purpose. The main advantage of
this project is doctors and patients can access those data in anywhere and anytime with secured manner.
At first the sensors will monitor the patients regularly for update the accurate information about the
patient for doctor reviews. Patient will easily view their medical reports through online with the help of
internet. Microcontroller used here was Arduino uno for performing operations. The methodology called
secondary methodology will be applying here. Temperature sensor DS18B20 will be used for sensing the
patients’ body temperature. Heart rate sensor SEN 11574 will be used for sensing the pulse rate of the
patient.
Keywords: Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), Micro controller, Temperature Sensor,
Heart beat Sensor.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................................3
2. Aims & Objectives..............................................................................................................................5
3. Project Deliverables.............................................................................................................................5
4. Project Method and work plan.............................................................................................................6
Project Schedule and Gantt chart.............................................................................................................9
5. Data protection and Information ethics:.............................................................................................10
6. Methodology:....................................................................................................................................11
7. Literature Survey:..............................................................................................................................12
8. Working method of patient monitoring system..................................................................................19
9. Patient Monitoring System Design....................................................................................................25
10. Implementation of mobile application...........................................................................................32
11. Evaluation of Proposed Project......................................................................................................35
12. Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................46
13. References.....................................................................................................................................47
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1. Introduction
Tele-health monitoring system provides the method to manage the health information of the
patient and their health conditions. There are lots of technologies and different types of
equipment are integrated in the system for monitoring the patient’s health condition records
efficiently. The report contains the project proposal diagram which includes the necessary ethical
aspects of the system like project schedule, stakeholder’s details and technological resources etc.
Telemedicine also an important utilization of a medicinal data for enhancing the patient’s clinical
status.
Concerned stakeholders
Tele-health monitoring system contains two different types of stakeholders
1. Internal stakeholder
2. External stakeholder
There will be many internal and external stakeholders are associated with this system
Internal stakeholders
The project development team, Project design team, The project manager, testers, Integration and
network engineers are comes under the internal stakeholders
External stakeholders
Patients, end user and medical team and lab associates are comes under the external stakeholders
Problem Addressed
Now days the patient’s faced lots of problem. There are various problems that the patients face in
terms of the visits to the health centers and the long waiting time upon reaching. There are also
cases of information loss and replication that are witnessed with the use of manual systems in
healthcare systems. Not only the normal patients the emergency patients also facing the these
kind of following problems for their treatment
 More time consuming for meet doctor
 Difficulty to visit the health centers
 Difficulty to visit clinics
 Long waiting time for reaching consult doctor
Project Importance
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The record maintaining capabilities and benefits are associated with significance of the project.
It is the main importance of the project. The project carried out the features of health care
activities and operations. It is necessary for the business units and organizations for adapt the
new technologies in their architecture and building infrastructure.
Significance of the project
1. Purchaser Access
2. Enhanced Outcomes
3. Tele-health will expand effectiveness
4. Legislative help and subsidizing
5. Innovation is accessible to help more grounded reception
6. Electronic Medical Records
7. Persistent fulfillment
Benefits for Internal & External stakeholders
There will be many key benefits that will be provided by the project to stakeholders
 The processing speed and quality of the health services that will be provided efficiently
 The medical fraternity will be improved by the sincerity of the medical team
 The medical team plays a major role in health care maintenance
 The project team and resources which would lead to the improvement of their
professional development and future growth of the organization
 The project sponsor are the main important factors to increase the organization growths
and developments
Relationship between Proposed work and existing system
The proposed project is based upon the health practices that are currently followed in the health
care organizations which contains some format for maintaining the patient’s records and physical
data. The features and qualities that will be implemented in the Tele-health monitoring system..
The existing system contains the set of operations would aid in the understanding of the
requirements and specifications of the system and future enhancement of the system. The
existing system fully based upon the methods and requirements of the previous analysis of the
legacy system.
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2. Aims & Objectives
The main objective of this project is to produce a functional tele-health monitoring
system. And it covers the non-functional and functional requirements.
Following are the objectives that are met in this project:
1. In tele-health monitoring system the successful deployment and development is used by
the patient and members in the medical team.
2. The operations of this system are correctly executed by the correct maintenance and
support of the tele-health monitoring system.
3. Completion of the functions and activities of this tele-health monitoring system within
the schedule and budget are used to estimate this project.
4. This complete details used by the patients to know about their health issues.
3. Project Deliverables
Following are some of the deliverables that are affiliate with the project:
 Proposal of the project and charter: This document contains the highlights and
complete details about the project. Project justification and its feasibility study
also attached with it.
 Plan of the project: The document will cover the methodology and project
approach with the specific project approach.
 Tele-health Monitoring System Design: This design will covers the design
diagrams and screen designs for the purpose of understanding the behavior of the
system and its details.
 Source code of this project: In the execution phase the code of the tele-health
monitoring system will be attached.
 Plan of Testing: This plan will cover testing methodology, test cases, testing
activities and test execution.
 Closure Report: This project would cover the sign offs along with the set of
activities and project acceptance.
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4. Project Method and work plan
 Project Resources, Milestones, Phases and Deliverables
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Project Schedule and Gantt chart
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Project technologies:
More implemented and developed technologies used in the project.
The project front end is PHP. It is one of the developed programming language.
The back end is My SQL database.
The timeline and estimation of project schedule is done by using the Microsoft Project
Management tool. The testing tools is used to make this project. Like TestLink and Bugzilla.
The usage of big data is necessary in the project. It is also makes the project and data
analytics tools for the analytics of the health details of the patient.
The records management tools are also combined. So manage the information of patients
is accurately.
The active methodology is also known as system development methodology. The project
management methodology will be project management body of knowledge (PMBOK)
5. Data protection and Information ethics:
The ethical standards and practices are important in the project. It is mainly followed
in the project activities and operations. Adding the adherence in the project for ethical standard.
The adherence is important to the Intellectual Property and laws in the project.
The compilation of property and laws is significant in the project tasks and activities.
The information is linked with the tele-health monitoring system. It is sensitive and
critical in nature.
It is used to protect and secure the information in all times. There is used to prevention
and detective controls. It is contains improved administrative checks and policy for the data
securities.
The project have developed of information and network security. Like anti-denial
tools, intrusion detection tools, anti-malware tools, proxy servers and firewalls.
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The use of access control and authentication mechanisms are important processes of
the project.
6. Methodology:
Secondary methodology is used here. The literature survey is done. Relevant cases are
studied. The design is developed.
The principle methods are completely studied. The systematic understanding has been
done. The overall analysis has been done. The system design has been developed separately.
In literature survey 15 papers has been studied.
Techniques, methods, advantages, existing system, and proposed systems are
understood clearly.
Advantages and disadvantages are clearly understood and separately mentioned.
Advantages of secondary methodology:
All resources are available in secondary methodology.
Previous researches are used.
Making easier to carry our further research.
Time saving and cost efficient.
The data was collected property and used for further research.
New insights are generated.
Accessibility.
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Disadvantages of secondary methodology:
Inappropriateness of the data.
Lack of control over data quality.
Accuracy of secondary data is not known.
Data may be outdates.
Qualitative method is used here. Qualitative research is the method used when you
want to understand why something happens. Subjective strategies deliver clarifications just of
the specific cases examined. The information ethics and data protection are studied in qualitative
methods accurately. Project deliverables are theoretically understand. It uses the preventive and
detective methodologies.
7. Literature Survey:
In many Asian countries everyday many lives are affected because the patients are
not observed and properly treated. Also continuous monitoring of ICU patients isn't possible. To
overcome these situations, this system used the Raspberry Pi technique (Navdeti, Parte and
Talashilkar, 2016).This system is designed for monitoring and measuring various health
parameters like heartbeat, temperature and ECG etc. The Raspberry Pi technique measured these
results and sent to the respective doctor using GSM module. Database will give the periodic
values of the health parameters. The doctor and relatives are receive the results by login to the
website. A live video of the patient can be streamed to the doctors and relatives. So they are able
to monitor the patient from any distance. And also the patient's parameters are compared with the
threshold value. So the immediate alert messages could be sent to the concerned doctor if there is
any unstable health situation is occurred. The main advantage of this system is that it provides
real-time video and health parameter of the patient.
This system measure the heart rate based on a PIC microcontroller. Infrared monitors are
used to monitors the heartbeat microcontroller (Moorthi and Amutha, 2015). It consists of an
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