Development of android based pulse monitoring system

Nowadays technology plays a major role which covers not only health-care but also in keeping track, recording and communicating reports. Regular monitoring of health condition is mandatory to stay healthy. With the advancement of technology in daily life remote health monitoring systems is emerging with it. In this paper, a real-time heart monitoring system is developed considering the ease of application, accuracy, and data security. The system is developed as a data channel between doctors and patients. The main purpose of this study is to facilitate with cardiovascular disease and provide monitoring without any clinical settings. The developed system is based on Pulse rate sensor to measure heart pulse and Android device to support the whole system along with a web portal. The performance analysis shows that the proposed system is reliable and helpful as it provides real-time monitoring. The analyses showed that the proposed system is convenient and ensures data security. In addition, the developed system can establish communication via messages between the doctor and patient.

I. Introduction

According to WHO, the greatest killer in the world are the cardiovascular diseases (CVD). An estimated 17.5 million people died from CVDs in 2012, representing 31% of all global deaths. Over three quarters of CVD deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries [1]. According to the latest WHO data published in May, 2014 Coronary Heart Disease Deaths in Bangladesh reached 50,708 or 6.96% of total deaths. The age adjusted Death Rate is 53.53 per 100,000 of population ranks Bangladesh #150 in the world [2]. As most of the population of Bangladesh belongs to the lower income group, improvements in diagnosis and treatment tools in a less cost are welcomed by the medical community which inspires the growth of research in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM).