An IOT Based Nurse Calling System for Real-time Emergency Alert Using Local Wireless Network

Abstract

In this paper, a wireless nurse calling system is proposed where any patient can call a nurse for an emergency case, and the notification will be received in the nurse’s wrist band. Currently, most of the emergency calling systems in a hospital are constructed based on hard-wired, which is a costly approach. There have been an attempt to implement the calling system over a wireless network, but the scale of coverage was very tiny. This project is based on a unified WiFi network which highly accessible and cheap to found, thus making it one of the cheapest approaches in this domain. The key component of this project is a WiFi module ESP8266 and a Server. This project can also be used on any kind of scale depending on the needs, ie. auto attendence and location detection. Our proposed system promises to deliver much higher performance and coverage while it is closing the gap between the management and nurses by monitoring calls in real-time.