Design of a smart glove for monitoring finger injury rehabilitation process via MQTT server

In this paper, a wearable glove, which measures hand parameters such as finger angle and force experienced by the finger, was designed by considering four fingers. The hand parameters were measured by using flexible resistive sensors and resistive force sensors. The obtained data were published to Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) server via Esp8266 Wi-Fi module. MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/ “lnternet of Things” connectivity protocol. Then an interface for the application was designed on Visual Studio and the meaningful data were presented to the user and physician. This application receives the data from Mosquitto broker service that uses MQTT protocol, thus the changes in the data can be seen from progress bars on the application form readily, and the rehabilitation process can be monitored by the physician remotely.