Embedded System Design and Remote Monitoring of ECG using Cloud

The need for a new healthcare system that is usable anytime and anyplace is growing due to paradigm shift from health supervision to health preservation, the increasing number of the elderly. Activities in this field include acquiring, man aging, and using biomedical information from personal to global level, to enhance quality and efficiency of medical care and the response to widespread public health emergencies. This technological advancement has led us to design a real time health monitoring and analysis system that is scalable and economic for people who require frequent monitoring of their health. This paper presents the development of a multipurpose remote monitoring system for ECG signals. A real-time patient monitoring system has been developed for patients at a disaster scene. This system can facilitate communication between providers at the disaster scene, medical professionals at local hospitals, and specialists available for consultation from distant facilities. This system is based on the concept of utilizing cloud computing for remote monitoring of ECG. Analog signal is acquired with the ADC unit of the PIC24 controller this information in terms of ECG is transferred through ZigBee network connected to the cloud and finally examination and storing are carried out. With this system, signals obtained from the patients can be monitored simultaneously by the experts. Cloud provides remote availability, reliability.