Efficient Health Care Monitoring and Emergency Management System using IoT

IoT have materialized, because of the advent in information and communication technologies. The use of IoT concept brought the ease of use for the clinicians and patients since it could be applied to a variety of medical functionalities such as health monitoring and health management. Sensors implanted in patients and communication of sensor data using IEEE 802.15.4, GPRS/GSMandHTTP is foundation technologies of IoT deployments in the healthcare systems. In this paper, a patient’s heart beat and finger moisture levels are sensed through appropriate sensors and planned to transmit these data to a physician at a remote location using GPRS/GSM. The physician could provide emergency medication suggestion through his mobile phone. Also, it is proposed to make these data available in cloud and health care (historical analysis) is monitored from cloud. As cloud could support in managing increasing volume of health data in medical engineering, professionally share the information across health care systems, bring down operational and management costs and could provide reasonable health care services, in this paper, Intel Galileo gen 2 which plays the role of Iot agent to deploy the medical data in to cloud is proposed and implemented. The response time is found to be less and hence the performance of the proposed system is improved with the existing remote health monitoring system.