A Skin Sensor for Epileptic Seizure Detection and Notification Applications

Internet of Things (IoT) allows us to digitize the world around us. Its priority focus has been automatizing actions depending on data collected from all types of sensors. Healthcare has benefited from its development in a phenomenal grade. Previously sensors were attached to cables to central monitoring systems to collect and process the monitored patients’ data. These cables restricted the subject’s movements and did use to cause grief. These intelligent systems have been evolving in the wireless world and now provide minor mobility issues to patients. The extreme cases allow users to wear such sensors for a prolonged time, permitting continuous monitoring and alerting systems to send data to the cloud. In this paper, we propose a monitoring system based on a low-power Bluetooth communication device that registers immediate changes in heart rate and skin capacitance. These changes can be measured and sent alerts to an app installed on the user’s cellular phone. The phone app has the capability of contacting relatives or emergency response.