LabVIEW-based Remote Patient Monitoring System in Hospital Using Arduino Mega

Abstract

The recovery of the patient is not limited to providing treatment, but it also requires continuous follow-up and monitoring to ensure his safety and avoid any serious changes that may occur in the patient. There is no doubt that traditional methods of monitoring the health condition in which the doctor is forced to visit the patient in his place are often expensive and require a lot of time, in addition to the doctor making a lot of effort due to his frequent visits to patients. Many studies have been presented to develop methods of monitoring the health of patients, through the use of various technologies, the most important of which is the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which provides the possibility of remote monitoring using platforms on the Internet that are accessed via mobile devices, so that the patient's health condition is displayed on these platforms, and then the doctor can view it wherever he is. The idea of this research came to design a remote health monitoring system that does not require an Internet connection to use, unlike what is found in monitoring systems that rely on IoT technology that require an Internet connection. In this research, the Arduino Mega board and LabVIEW program were used to program the monitoring system and design the graphical user interface (GUI). This interface displays the changes in the vital parameters of six patients: temperature, heart rate, and blood oxygen level, so that the doctor inside the hospital can monitor the condition of the six patients in real time while they are in their rooms without having to be next to them, with the possibility of setting the maximum and minimum permissible value for these parameters, so that if one of these parameters is outside the specified range, the system alerts the doctor by turning on an indicator light to alert him of the presence of a danger to one of these six patients. The health monitoring system for the patients' condition was designed and tested on six people and the results were good, as the vital parameters of these people were displayed on the user interface in real time, and an indicator light was turned on for one of the patients to alert the doctor because one of the parameters was outside the specified range.