PROJECTS BACKGROUND

Initial designs of monitoring devices at hospitals are commonly bulky and not practical to be used outside the hospital. Therefore, for patients that are required to be frequently monitored their health's by physicians have to stay in the hospital. However, the comfort being monitored in the hospitals are not as comfortable as being at home. Furthermore, staying at hospitals is costly and not a lot of people can afford it. For example; for elderly people, most of them are not comfortable on staying in the hospitals and prefer the comfort of their home. However, it is not convenient for elderly people to frequently go to the hospitals to done a self-health check.

There are multiple of self-health monitoring kits that are available in the current market however these kits are only limited to one parameter of measurements only. For example, the blood pressure monitors and blood glucose monitor. The negative part is not just it can only measured one parameters, however its draw back was the fact that this device cannot create feedback between the users and the physicians. Without the qualified person to examine the data, the data collected would be wasted.

This new development of ‘Self-Health Monitoring Kit’ is a device that is design to measured four primary vital signs that are important for diagnostic purpose. These four vital signs are heart beat, blood pressure, oxygen saturation in blood (Sp02) and also temperature. It is designed to be low-cost, portable, low-power and easy to be operated by the users. This device will also be integrated with Bluetooth module to enable the users to directly transfer the data obtained to the PC or other mobile or electronics gadgets and send it to their respective doctor through the used of internet.

The development of this device would give benefits to many industries including medical and engineering. In medical, it gives a huge impact on health care costs as they reducing the time and resources of medical physicians and facilities required for the patients. Since it is a non-invasive device, it can easily be handled by the users without the supervision of physicians and especially easy to use. Therefore, this device can help in maintain health and wellness. In engineering, the electronics component used for hardware development and program used for software development are widely used in development of electronic devices. Not only this device can be used at home, but it can also be used at households, hospitals, fitness gyms, and training facilities.