IRJET- Wireless Real Time Implementation of Health Assist System for Rurals

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WIRELESS REAL TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH ASSIST SYSTEM
FOR RURALS
Dr.M PREMKUMAR1, ANANDHA KRISHNAN R2, MOHAMMED AZARUDDIN R3, BALAKRISHNAN P4
1Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Panimalar Institute of Technology,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2,3,4B.E.Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Panimalar Institute of Technology,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Abstract - Medicine plays an important role in humanity in
each and every scenario and situation. An automated
medical system is introduced to reduce power time and
energy spent by human workforce. The arrangement of this
prototype is similar to an automated teller machine (ATM)
through which we get the required money at any time and
any place. A similar type of arrangement is followed for the
pharmaceuticals also which is real time health assist system
(RTHAS) and it is somewhat like an ATM machine in
structure. The purpose of this research paper is to propose
an arrangement to provide basic medical services to remote
villages via the proposed model presented herewith. In our
ATM machine it will dispense Pills Instead of money. RF tag
is used to verify the patient’s identity (id) and a video call is
used for the communication purpose in rural areas where
there is no medical facilities due to lack of Physician or
Medical Doctor. Even though medical facilities are available
in remote villages the patients have to go longer distance
and there is no 24x7 medical care provided due to
unavailability of Doctors. Thus we have proposed a
prototype of a Real Time Health Assist System where the
system acts as an any time medicine(AYTM). Thepatientcan
use this system easily, since it is user friendly where the
Patient can interact with the doctor with their native
language through a video call making it a good way of
communication. To overcome the lack of doctors and
medical facilities in rural villages this system can be
implemented and the medical prescription receivedthrough
wireless system or as print out is obtained from the thermal
print out. If there is any lack or unavailabilityofmedicinewe
need to just take the printout from the thermal printer if we
show the slip to any of the Pharma or chemist medical shop
where they will offer the medicine for free cost. The above
task can be implemented using the components such as
Arduino mega, EM18 card reader heart beat sensor,
transceiver module, l293d driver, servo motor and LCD
display.
Key Words: Arduino Mega, EM18 card reader, Any Time
Medicine (AYTM), RF transceiver.
1. INTRODUCTION
In the contemporary day life style, people have no time
to spend with their family. In such a busy life it's difficultto
keep an isolated day out of their busy schedule for the
doctor for consistent medical check-up. Internet of
Things(IoT) enabled with cloud technology for medical
pills dispensing is significantnowadays[1]andalsothereis
a necessity for design and modelling new modern idea &
technology for medical health system [2]which helps in
saving time for healthcare. In rural areas there is no
medical facilities due to lack of doctors and even though
medical facilities are available in remote villages the
patients have to go longer distance. Also, there is no 24 x7
medical care provided due to doctors unavailability.
Programmable medical health systems[3] are developing
at a faster pace for dispensing medical pills. In present day
scenario real time health monitoring with mobile
devices[4] is also essential for human welfare. Various
research papers have been proposed such the works from
[4]-[7]. In the research paper of [5] a smart device is
suggested for alterting health of a person using internet of
things technology. Another framework using IoT for
autonomous hospital managementsystemisproposedasa
real time case in [6].An electronic pill dispenser which is
capable of programming in a dynamic manner is proposed
in [7]. A wireless sensor network(WSN) arrangement is
presented in [8] were the lifetime extension related
concepts were consideredwhichwill beuseful forhandling
of sensors in a wireless network arrangement. Similarly a
low cost medical dispenser is proposed in [9] and a health
care monitoring system is considered for a wirelesssensor
network[10].
In addition to the existing works we proposea prototype
of a real time health assist system where the system act as
an any time medicine(AYTM). The controller that we have
used is ARDUINO Mega. The Patient can interact with the
doctor with their native language through video call
making it a good way of communication. To overcome the
lack of doctors and medical facilities in rural villages this
system is used. Moreover in rural hospitalsthefacilitiesfor
health caring are not upgraded to the state-of-the-art
ultimately limited in all forms and poor quality in health
management enables issues in health care system. Human
welfare should get the knowledge of own health as easy
and early as possible. In developing countries there is lack
of resources and management to reach outtheproblems of
individuals. A common man cannot afford the expensive
and daily checkup for his health. For this purpose various
system which give easy and assured caring unit have been
developed. The system which we intend to propose
reduces time with safety in handling equipment. The

purpose of this research paper is to provide basic medical
services to remote villages. In our research paper we
propose a prototype which will dispense Pills for the basic
health care related issues for human ailments such as
fever, cold, cough to name a few. R F tag is used to verify
the patient’s id. Video call is done for the communication
purpose with the doctor. Using this E-health application
the patient can test their body condition as in this system
the sensors are used where here there is heart beat sensor
used to measure the heart beat of the patientandtheLM35
is used for the body temperature of the patient for the
weight and the blood pressure we have used the
potentiometer (POT). In future implementationwecanuse
the load cell to get the weight of the patient. All the
information of the patient is recorded and sent to the
doctor through the RF transceiver module.
The research paper is organized in the following manner.
Section I presents introduction of the pill dispensersystem
along with research works. Section II presents the
proposed system and its overview with objectives, block
diagram in the transmitter and receiver side and its
associate components. Section III gives the output results
obtained and Section IV gives conclusion about the paper.
2. PROPOSED SYSTEM AND OVERVIEW
A. Objective
● To develop a wireless health assist system which
measures the body temperature, heart rate, blood
pressure, weight.
● To develop the pill mechanism to dispense the
pills that need for patient.
● Design a system to save data using a database.
● Analyze collected data from sensors.
B. Block Diagram
Transmitter side
Fig 1 shows the working of transmitter side. The Arduino
mega is used as the controller of this system and all the
health monitoring devices are connected to the Arduino. A
heart beat sensor is used for recording the heart beat rate
of the patient. For the body temperature we use the LM35
which inturn is connected to the arduino. For the blood
pressure and weight we use the potentiometer(POT) used
for variations. The RFID card reader is connected to the
Arduino and a RF transceiver is used to transmit the data
to the receiver. There we use the pills dispenser
mechanism which is rotated by using the servomotor
connected to the controller and thus the details of the
patient is collected in this transmitter side of the system
and sent to the receiver side.
Fig 1: Transmitter side of the system
Receiver Side
Fig 2: Receiver side of the system
Fig 2 shows the working of the receiver side of the
proposed system, where the information of patient which
are measured are received through the RFtransceiver.The
obtained information is sent to the doctor in this receiver
end where the physician or doctor goes throughthedetails
of the patient and he prescribes the medic pill from his
intelligent device such as computer, laptop and thus in the
transmitter side there is a pill mechanism where the
prescribed medicine is dispensed.
C. Components used
1) Arduino Mega:
Arduino Mega is a microcontroller setup which is
from ATmega 2580 which can be obtained from standard
database repository.

2) Temperature Sensor:
LM35 sensor is used for the measurement of body
temperature. Sensor is put in contact with body and it
senses body temperature. It is calibratedlinearlyincelsius.
It has low self heating capability. Also it doesn't require
external calibration.
3) Heart Pulse sensor:
Pulse sensor is designed to give output of heart beat
when a finger is placed on sensor where it starts working.
To observe the sensor output, output pin of sensor is
connected to the controller and it is displayed in the LCD
display as it is connected to the Arduino mega. The
working principle of sensor is based on the IR sense the
blood flow through nerves at each heart pulse.
4) EM18 Card Reader Module:
● Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a
wireless identification technology that uses radio
waves to identify the presence of RFID tags.
● Similar to Bar code reader, RFID technology is
used for identification of people and object.
● In barcode technology, we need to optically scan
the barcode by keeping it in front of reader,
whereas in RFID technology we just need to bring
RFID tags in range of readers. Also, barcodes can
get damaged or unreadable, which is not in the
case for most of the RFID.
● RFID is used in many applications like attendance
system in which every person will have their
separate RFID tag which will help identify person
and their attendance.
● RFID is used in many companies to provideaccess
to their authorized employees.
● It is also helpful to keep track of goods and in
automated toll collection system on highway by
embedding Tag (having unique ID) on them.
Fig 3: EM-18 Reader Module
5) RF Transceiver:
Generally, an RF module is a small sizeelectronicdevice,
that is used to transmit or receive radio signals between
two devices. The main application of RF module is
an embedded system to communicate with anotherdevice
wirelessly. This communication may be accomplished
through radio frequency communication. For various
applications the medium of choice is radio frequency since
it does not need line of sight. The applications of RF
modules mainly involves low volume and medium volume
products for consumer applications like wireless alarm
systems, garage door openers, smart sensor applications,
wireless home automation systems and industrial remote
controls.
3. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
Fig 4: Setup of system
Fig 4 shows the set up of the system where the output
where the health details of the patient are shown on the
LCD.
Fig 5: LCD display output
Before taking the heart beat rate we have to pressthepush
button after pressing the LCD it will be displayed as shown
in the Fig 6

Fig 6: LCD indication
Thereafter we keep the finger between the IR of the heart
beat sensor as shown in the Fig 7.
Fig 7: Heart beat sensor
Here the sensor is designed to give output of heart beat
when a finger is placed on sensor. To observe the sensor
output, the output pin of sensor is connected to the
controller where it is displayed in the LCD display as it is
connected to the Arduino mega.
Fig 8: Heart beat rate output
The heart beat rate of the patient is displayed on the LCD
display as shown in the Fig 8.
Fig 9: Pill Dispenser Mechanism System
Fig 10 shows the pill dispenser mechanism system where
the main output of this research paper and here the pills
are filled in the pipe and the pill dispenser will rotateusing
the servomotor that is connected in the bottom of this
system as it rotates and there is hole in it and the pills are
pushed out using the solenoid valve and quick release of
the lock is done and the pills are pushed out of the pipes.
The refilling is done if there is less number of pills are
available.
Fig 10: output view of Doctor
Fig 10 shows the output view from the doctors
perspective where the patients details arerecorded with
date and time. The doctor go through the report of the
patient and he selected the prescribed pills by clicking pill
A, B, C, D. The decreasing of the pills can also detected by
the doctor to indicate for the refill.
4. CONCLUSION
Thus in this research paper we have constructed a
prototype of a real time health assist System. Where the
system act as an AYTM. The patient can use this system
easily it is user friendly. The Patient can interact with the

doctor with their native language through video call. To
overcome the lack of doctors and medical facilities in rural
villages this system is used. The proposed prototype via
this research paper can be used for developing effective
healthcare for humanity for village ecosystem.
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