SMART HEALTHCARE FRAMEWORK FOR ELDERLY

ASSISTANCE IN WIRELESS BODY AREA

NETWORK(WBAN)

Mr.M.Balamurugan1*, C.Gnanapriya2, K.Vijiyalakshmi3, E.Vanitha4

Assistant professor, Computer Science Engineering. ,Sri Sai Ram Engineering college, Chennai, India India 1
Student, Computer Science Engineering, Sri Sai Ram Engineering college, Chennai,India India 2
3
Student, Computer Science Engineering, Sri Sai Ram Engineering college, Chennai,India India
4
Student, Computer Science Engineering, Sri Sai Ram Engineering college, Chennai, India India

ABSTRACT:
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used to interconnect the available medical resources and offer smart, reliable,
and effective healthcare service to the elderly people.Health monitoring for active and assisted living is one of the paradigms that can
use the IoT advantages to improve the elderly lifestyle. An IoT architecture is customized for healthcare applications.The proposed
architecture collects the data and relays it to the cloud where it is processed and analyzed. Feedback actions based on the analyzed
data can be sent back to the user. The proposed system design philosophy targets having a low-power system that can be worn
during the day and be turbo charged as necessary. The system is implemented using low-cost components, which makes it an
affordable system.

Keywords: Physical sensor; indoor positioning module; sensor interface circuit; cloud server.

2.2. Indoor positioning module

1. Introduction
The internet of things platform offers a promising technology to
achieve the aforementioned healthcare services, and can further
improve the medical service systems [1]. IoT wearable platforms
can be used to collect the needed information of the user and its
ambient environment and communicate such information
wirelessly, where it is processed or stored for tracking the
history of the user[2]. Such a connectivity with external devices
and services will allow for taking preventive measure (e.g., upon
foreseeing an upcoming heart stroke) or providing immediate
care (e.g., when a user falls down and needs help).
2. Wearable active and assisted living
we propose a portable and customizable IoT system that can be
used to collect the data needed to facilitate the independent living
of senior and challenged citizens to improve their quality of life.
The proposed system design philosophy targets having a low-
power system that can be worn during the day and be turbo
charged as necessary. The system is designed to be light and
comfortable to wear.Furthermore,the system is implemented
using low-cost components, which makes it an affordable
system.The system is composed of four main components that
are described as follows.
2.1.physical sensors
In order to collect the user information that reflect its activity
and medical signs, multiple sensors are needed. These sensors are
light weighted in order to be wearable. A temperature sensor is
used to measure the temperature of any part of the body.A heart
beat and pulse sensor is used to measure BPM and pulse.The
light sensor provides the information that can help the user adjust
his/her ambience light, so as to help him/her navigate around
with ease.The fall detection sensor is an accelerometer that is
used to determine whether the user has fallen abruptly, such that
warnings signals can be generated to provide the needed care.
Several iBeacon devices are installed in the environment in
which the user is located. When the user moves to the proximity
of an iBeacon, its ID is read by the microcontroller wirelessly
using BLE.The iBeacon ID is sent to the cloud server to obtain
the user’s location.The BLE technology allows the iBeacon to
be powered by a single coin cell battery for extended time
intervals.
2.3. Sensor interface circuit
The signals representing the different sensed phenomena are
then conditioned to be ready for input to the
microcontroller.This is achieved through the use of sensor
interfacing circuitry that converts any analog signals coming
from the sensors into the corresponding digital format and
performs any further signal conditioning functionality to ensure
compatibility with the used Arduino UNO microcontroller.
2.4. cloud server
The collected user’s data is communicated to a cloud server
which is responsible for facilitating the accessibility of such a
data anywhere through the Internet. The cloud server
implements a wideset of data management services including
data storage, data analytics, and data visualization in addition to
providing an appropriate application program interface (API)
.The sensor's data can be used in predicting future ailments and
for sending periodical alerts to the medical practitioner.
3. Result and discussion
As a proof of concept, a prototype system has been implemented
to evaluate theproposed IoT active and assisted living healthcare
system. The system has been con-figured to collect data from all
the listed sensors. However, in what follows, we only present
the data of the indoor positioning, the fall detection, and the
light sensor. The readings of the other wearable sensors have
been validated in the lab as well.we have the user walking for a
few seconds then abruptly fall on the ground, to mimic real-
world scenario.When, the user falls down, there was a small
change in acceleration in x- and y-axis, and a significant spike in
the acceleration of z-axis demonstrating that the proposed
system can detect sudden falls, as applicable in health care
sector.We deployed several iBeacon transmitters in the building
where the experiment was conducted.
proposed system. The preliminary performance evaluation
results have demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed system
– despite being a low-cost one.This makes the proposed system
a good candidate for implementing a wide set of wearable
healthcare systems. Our future work will include how to secure
the access of the data and will develop a mobile application that
allows access of the data on handheld devices.

4.Conclusion
In this paper, we have presented a low-power wearable IoT
system for active and assisted living healthcare applications. We
have outlined the main components of the proposed system and
explained their implementation details. We have built a
prototype to illustrate the different performance aspects of the

Acknowledgement
This paper and project would not have been a reality if
Mr.M.Balamurugan Assistant Professor, Dept. of computer science
and Engineering, SSEC was not our mentor and guide. His guidance
has been a major force in the completion of our working model. We
would also like to thank Mrs.Latha HOD, Department of computer
science and Engineering, SSEC for giving us permission to carry out
this project.

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