Covid-19 Symptoms Monitoring Sensor Network for Isolation Rooms at Hospitals

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic has had a significant impact on all the countries throughout the world. The number of the medical staff at hospitals was very limited. Thus, it was so risky for medical staff to have direct contact with that enormous number of Covid-19 patients, especially with those who were suffering from severe Covid-19 symptoms and should be isolated in quarantine isolation rooms. The world doesn’t know to which extent the next pandemic could be dangerous. Therefore, we proposed an EHealth system that will be suitable to address this issue by minimizing any direct interactions between medical staff and patients, who are suffering from either Covid-19 or any similar potentially life-threatening infections. The proposed solution is consisting of two subsystems. The first subsystem is related to the incessant aggregation process of all the vital sensory data needed to fully track the health status of each patient in isolation rooms using the proposed Patient Monitoring Unit (PMU). The second stage is responsible for gathering all these health status information using the Hospital Central Monitoring Server Unit (HCMSU) within a hospital, which then can be displayed for the medical staff to fully track all the patients’ data readings over a secured ethernet connection. Moreover, the HCMSU is responsible for filtering the received patients’ status data and transmitting only the necessary information to server Covid-19 databases at the Ministry of Health (MoH). The prototype of both the PMU and the HCMSU has been tested and verified.