A novel health support system with biometric data acquisition device

At present, health related mobile applications have drawn considerable attention from researchers around the world. However, these applications only take disease symptoms as input from the users, but do not take vital signs of body into consideration. To provide vital signs, users need to collect data from external devices like blood pressure machine, blood glucose monitor etc. which may not be affordable for low-to-moderate income people. Besides, services that collects vital data from the user and provides directly into the system need internet connection for checking health status, which may be unavailable for people from less developed areas. The objective of our project is to present an effective health support system to the people from developing and underdeveloped countries in physical troublesome situations in a low-cost and user-friendly way. This system directly collects vital signs of body as biometric inputs with a health kit device. Using these inputs along with additional symptoms directly taken from the users, a mobile application checks their current health status and identifies chances of possible diseases with accurate severity level and provides suggestions accordingly. Moreover, it also provides first-aid counsels to handle accidents on emergency basis. The test results on the prototype show that it has encouraging potential as a tool for regular health checkups and emergency conditions.