Design and ImplementaTion of Patient Activity Monitoring System Using wearable Sensors

Wearable sensors have become very popular in many applications such as medical, entertainment, security, and commercial fields. They can be extremely useful in providing accurate and reliable information on people’s activities and behaviours, thereby ensuring a safe and sound living environment. The human activity monitoring is a vibrant area of research and a lot of commercial development are reported. It is expected that many more light-weight, high-performance wearable devices will be available for monitoring a wide range of activities. This monitoring system uses sensors to collect the data and it is fed to the microcontroller to perform controlling operations and the details about the patient are displayed on the computer. The advancement of sensing technologies and embedded systems makes it possible to develop a system to monitor activities of human beings continuously. Wearable sensors detect abnormal and/or unforeseen situations by monitoring physiological parameters along with other symptoms. Therefore, necessary help can be provided in times of dire need. This paper is the latest system on activity monitoring of humans based on wearable sensors.