Arduino & IoT Based Health Surveillance Systems: A Review

Abstract

Healthcare is an essential and significant part for all countries. In order to maintain the health of patients, it is necessary to surveillance them constantly. This process (monitor) becomes even further crucial when persons reach a certain age and are not capable to track their health condition correctly without special medical staff or advanced equipment to accomplish the monitoring. The older human acquires the broader spectrum of potential diseases and unpredicted emergency conditions might happen. In order to bypass this, the patients must be transferred to the hospital for the purpose of noticing by medical staff and provided with direct help if some of the important parameters are abnormal. In many cases, even a little delay might lead to serious consequences including the death of patient. Therefore, it became necessary to go to surveillance using modern devices that possess a various number of capabilities and can assist personnel in the hospital to work with old or disabled human. For this reason, a number of medical devices and sensors that operate within monitoring systems will be presented and illustrated through this research.