Microcontroller based health monitoring system

Abstract

This paper presents a cheap and simple health monitoring system which is well applicable at home or in an institution. The system provides a good opportunity to gather and store health information about one or more observed patients. The collected information can help analyze the patient's state of heath. In the regularly gathered information the analyzer methods can search patterns which refer to symptoms. Therefore doctors can prevent or treat the initial illnesses. The system includes one Java server and lots of microcontroller based clients. Clients are responsible for sensor control and data transmission. On the server side, a Java based program handles the incoming information and stores it in a MySQL database.