article · Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Recent advances in internet of things technology have expanded the capacity for remote patient monitoring and telemedicine across hospital settings and community healthcare centres. A portable healthcare monitoring system operating within an internet of things environment has been developed, designed to be controlled easily through a dedicated smartphone application. The system monitors physiological indicators from a patient's body alongside the real-time environmental conditions of their living space. In addition to continuous tracking, the setup automatically manages the associated databases. To evaluate practical communication performance, an assessment was conducted comparing data transfer speeds from the proposed monitoring system across three different servers.
Remote health monitoring allows medical teams to track vital signs and living environments without requiring patients to stay in hospitals. Integrating mobile applications and automatic data management into portable devices helps streamline patient tracking, supporting more responsive telemedicine services and reducing the operational load on busy healthcare facilities.
The system represents an applied technology prototype combining wearable or portable sensing hardware, mobile software, and backend database management. It could enable commercial telemedicine services or remote care products for clinics, care homes, and homebound patients. Because the evaluation focuses on data transfer rates across servers, the technology appears to be at an early testing stage, requiring further clinical and operational trials before market deployment.
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In the last decade, healthcare systems have played an effective role in improving medical services by monitoring and diagnosing patients' health remotely. These systems, either in hospitals or in other health centers, have experienced significant growth with emerging technologies. They are becoming of great interest to many countries worldwide nowadays. Portable healthcare monitoring systems (HMS) depend on internet of things (IoT) technology due to its effectiveness and reliability in several sectors, as well as in the sector of telemedicine. This paper proposes a portable healthcare system in an IoT environment controllable via a smartphone application that aims to facilitate utilization. This proposed system can track physiological indicators of a patient's body as well as the environmental conditions where the patient lives in real-time and auto-manage databases. Moreover, this paper touched on a comparison between three servers, concerning data transfer speeds from the proposed system into the servers.
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DOI: 10.11591/eei.v12i2.4282
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