FRAMEWORK FOR TOUCHLESS PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM INTEGRATING UWB RADAR AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) FOR COVID19 PATIENTS

In recent years, internet of things (IoT) technology has shown great potential in the health care sector through different wearable sensors. Monitoring various health parameters like body temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat, oxygen level, and sugar level is very important for being proactive against chronic and pandemic diseases. Monitoring patients is a great challenge during pandemic diseases since doctors and other medical practitioners are exposed to risk. This paper presents a novel touchless health and patient monitoring system embedding ultra-wideband (UWB) and IoT technolo-gies for effective monitoring of COVID-19 patients. The IoT module is specifically designed for health monitoring whereas UWB radar is designated for effective touchless patient monitoring. The IoT module comprises a temperature sensor, heartbeat sensor, and pulse oximeter, which sense and store the information in the Internet cloud, which can then be accessed through mobile and web applications. UWB radar is integrated with the system for touchless patient monitoring. The proposed system is also embedded with a heath-assisting module that allows patients to interact with doctors after receiving their health parameters through the mobile bot application termed IOT FIT BOT. A mobile application and a web-based graphical user interface are developed to receive sensed data immediately. Thus the proposed system provides effective health monitoring along with live health assistance, and more importantly, the system offers touchless patient monitoring, which will be a promising solution for medical professionals during pandemic situations like COVID-19. © 2022 by Begell House, Inc.