The design of a lowcost remote health monitoring system

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dc.contributor.authorKasirye, Joshua
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-20T10:04:12Z
dc.date.available2020-04-20T10:04:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionCapstone Project submitted to the Department of Engineering, Ashesi University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, April 2019en_US
dc.description.abstractAccessing remote health care from public hospitals in Ghana has become more difficult and expensive recently due to the increasing number of patients that surpass the low number of doctors in the country. Many people have lost their lives waiting in long vital checking lines just to take their vitals in some hospitals. However, with the help of the Internet of Things (IoT), this report provides a design of a low-cost remote health monitoring system for patients with chronic diseases who need frequent health monitoring. This system was designed and fabricated using a Wi-Fi module on a microcontroller, a temperature sensor, and a web application. It provides a more convenient and cost-effective remote transmission of health vitals to public hospital administrators. During testing, a patient logged on to the web application and took the vitals using the system’s temperature sensor. The new temperature readings were received by the hospital administrator successfully at very low costs with total convenience which made the system fully functional as intended. The system will be further developed by adding more medical sensors to make it able to capture other more vitals. As better technologies will be integrated into the proceeding versions of this system, in the long run, it will improve on the quality of remote health care provided in the countryen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAshesi Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11988/522
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectrural healthen_US
dc.subjectremote health monitoring systemen_US
dc.subjectsensing deviceen_US
dc.subjectmobile gatewayen_US
dc.subjectweb-based applicationen_US
dc.titleThe design of a lowcost remote health monitoring systemen_US
dc.typeCapstone Projecten_US

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