Mobile Health Monitoring System

Mobile health monitoring systems are capable of monitoring many physiological parameters (e.g. ECG, heart rate, blood pressure, pulse rate, blood oxygen saturation and body temperature) and activity parameters (e.g. walking speed and distance, calorie consumption). A complete system consists of a wearable body sensor network (including multiple wireless sensor nodes and a central node), smartphones or PCs and a remote medical monitoring centre. The sensors employed in the wearable body sensor network include electrodes, microphones, pressure sensors, optical sensors, temperature sensors and accelerometers. They could be attached to specific parts of human bodies such as wrists, chests and ankles to detect real-time parameters. The data collected by these sensor nodes are gathered into the central node which then sends to local devices such as smart phones or PCs through a WiFi or Bluetooth connection so that patient could view the results. In parallel, local devices would automatically send the results to remote medical monitoring centre through a wired or wireless network for analysis and diagnosis by medical professionals who could be situated anywhere in the world.

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