Maternal ehealth Monitoring System using LoRa Technology

Out of the multiple emerging Wireless Communication Technologies for IoT applications, LoRaWAN projects a significant role with its specific advantages such as low power, long range communication protocol enabling large scale wireless networks with single hop. This paper presents the application of LoRA technology in ehealthcare, especially for maternity and neonatal care. The Proposed System interfaces the Maternal Monitoring System (MMS) and Traffic Monitoring System (TMS) using a LoRa Gateway to support the reduction in Maternal Death Rate. The MMS available in the ambulance measures the vital parameters of a maternal woman such as body temperature, pressure, glucose level, pulse rate and movement of the fetus and are communicated to the hospital for the pre-planning of labour/emergency ward according to patient’s conditions. In the meantime, regulation of traffic in the stipulated path to the hospital is also ensured. The performance of the system is evaluated and reported for real time execution.