Development Of A Detached Vital Sign Home Monitoring Management System

Abstract

Patients coping with chronic illnesses are often inconvenienced with routine doctor visits for the sole purpose of conducting basic vital sign monitoring. Such visits tend to be disruptive, and are more so when the patient requires a lengthy commute or has a mobility disability. As technology progresses, advances in low powered integrated circuits and network connectivity has opened the doors to a new world of remote patient monitoring. This thesis explores the possibility of using low powered technology to develop a patient monitoring system that's completely detached, thus allowing patients to move around their homes while the monitoring continues. We discuss the development of such a system with various monitoring subsystems incorporated into the device. This system, being modular and flexible, will enable any configuration of monitoring subsystems to be present.