Health Monitoring And Alert System For Elderly Parent (HMAS)

Muhammad Khir, Hussin (2015) Health Monitoring And Alert System For Elderly Parent (HMAS). Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Health Monitoring and Alert System for Elderly Parent (HMAS) is a system for monitoring health the elderly parent. The heart rate can be measured by monitoring one's pulse using specialized medical devices such as an electrocardiograph (ECG), portable device e.g. wrist strap watch, or any other commercial heart rate monitors which normally consisting of a chest strap with electrodes. Despite of its accuracy, somehow it is costly, involve many clinical settings and elderly parent must be attended by medical experts for continuous monitoring. For the elderly parent whom already diagnosed with fatal heart disease, their heart rate condition bas to be monitored continuously. This paper proposed an alert system that able to monitor the heart beat rate condition of elderly parent. The heart beat rate is detected using pulse sensor. This signal is processed using Arduinno to determine the heart beat rate per minute. Then, it sends SMS alert to the mobile phone of medical experts or patient's family members, or their relatives via SMS. Thus, their relative can know location the elderly parent and see on the map.

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