Design of IoT based Autonomous Wireless Body Area Networks to Monitor Vital Signs of COVID-19 Patients

Abstract

The coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) posed a serious threat to worldwide healthcare systems. Social distance, quarantining techniques, and other hygiene methods are also consistently used all over the world to prevent disease transmission. Frequent patient appointment visits are avoided as a result of full acceptance of the foregoing monitoring activities. On the other hand, certain people's physiological critical needs necessitate regular monitoring of their health state. Patients who are unable to receive continuous monitoring equipment face serious repercussions, including death. Smart home connectivity and integrated healthcare networks are being encouraged by recent breakthroughs in the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The wireless body area network (WBAN) is gaining popularity for IoT-connected healthcare applications as more wearable devices hit the market. On existing portable ECG systems, a literature review is conducted. This study presents a health management device for COVID-19 patients and also for normal patients that can measure electrocardiograms, oxygen levels, heart rate, and body temperature and communicate the information to medical workers over an IoT cloud network. The unit also has a solar cell, making it energy efficient and suitable for usage in any remote location. Experiments show that crucial data may be successfully transmitted to an IoT cloud platform, where it can be displayed and analyzed further.