Smart Mobile Electrocardiogram Monitor

Smart and cost-effective healthcare has been in increasing demand to meet the needs of growing human population and medical expenses. It is a known fact that a country like India has become the heart disease capital of the world. There is an urgent need to develop an effective health monitoring system that can detect abnormalities of health conditions in time and make diagnoses according to the gleaned data. ECG monitoring is a widely studied and applied approach to diagnose heart diseases. However, existing portable wireless ECG monitoring systems cannot work without a mobile application, which is responsible for data collection and passing on the messages to doctors. Recent advances in mobile technology and cloud computing have inspired numerous designs of cloud-based health care services and devices. Within the cloud system, medical data can be collected and transmitted automatically to medical professionals from anywhere and feedback can be returned to patients through the network. In this paper, we propose a new method for ECG monitoring based on Cypress Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) Internet of Things (IoT) platform. ECG data are gathered using a wearable monitoring node and are transmitted directly to the IoT cloud using Wi-Fi.