Heart rate monitoring system using Internet of Things

Abstract Healthcare these days is receiving a lot of attention in practice and in industry. In this field, one of the nontrivial problems is to monitor and predict heart attacks. It is a well-experienced phenomenon; moreover, we have seen it many times in our social lives that heart attacks often result in the death of a patient before he/she gets proper treatment. This is mainly owing to the fact that conventional systems are inefficient in terms of taking action. Most of the times patients themselves have to be alert in monitoring their heart conditions. It is therefore understandable that during an emergency, placing a call to medical services is in vain. In this regard, we argue that Internet of Things (IoT)–based techniques can have good efficiency to solve such issues. They can invoke any health-related service dynamically (based on a patient’s physical status), and appropriate action can then be taken in a timely manner. Therefore, following this line of argument, in this chapter, we discuss an architecture that can send a patient’s physical and pathological body signs to a remote service in real time. The system consists of two parts: (1) data acquisition and (2) data transmission. It is understood that monitoring a patient’s physical characteristics is key to achieving the former goal successfully.