Sensor Overlay for Remote Patients Monitoring

People around the world are facing lack of treatment, doctors' availability, and health monitoring technologies. In this modern era, many systems are evolving that provide health care services with some limitations, such as being very expensive, a lack of security for patient data, and having a high communicational and computing overhead. The major goal of this work is to propose an effective overlay for sensor networks for faster routing of patients' vital parameters to the medical staff concerned. This proposed system uses heartbeat sensor for monitoring the heart rate, temperature sensor (LM35) for monitoring the body temperature of the patient, a GSM (Global System for Mobile) technology is used to alert the doctors or care takers in case of any emergency situation. Zigbee wireless technology is used for transferring the data that comes from the sensors and APR9600 loud speaker is used to alert the doctors through voice commands. In addition, overlay network for sensors to enable fast and reliable communication is proposed In normal routing, the best path is found using traditional protocols, which may not be effective for a sensor network as energy of the device is not a parameter for route costing. This work proposes constructing Sensor Overlay for Remote Patients Monitoring (SORPM) for efficient routing of data between end users say doctors and patients. Scalability is another added advantage of this approach.