Project Nabz

Abstract

The recent advancements in electronics and microelectronics allow the development of low-cost devices in the field of medicine that is widely used by many people as monitoring tools for wellbeing or preventive purposes. In emergencies or life-threatening situations, patients are generally shifted to hospitals in ambulances and the health conditions of on-board patients can become critical if they are not evaluated and treated in time. Chances of saving lives can increase significantly if patients’ vital signs inside an ambulance or on-site triage area are transferred to a hospital in real time. The Project Nabz is based on wearable sensors, signal processing, IoT, and raspberry pi that offers efficient solutions to measure vital signs with ease and can be measured anywhere anytime. An IoT-based low-cost solution is proposed to measure all the vital signs including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, oxygen saturation, and respiratory rate. This remote system can measure the major vital signs of the patients in real-time, observe health conditions, assessing them, and most important, provide feedback. Project Nabz can measure all vital signs at once and provide accurate results displayed to the attendant on a screen. It takes the reading after every 30 minutes and updates the condition of patient. It provides healthcare sector a real-time, reliable, and accurate diagnostic results supported by sensor systems that can be monitored remotely, whether the patient is in a hospital, clinic, or at home.