A Wearable IOT- based Healthcare Monitoring System for Elderly People

With the increase of the aging population, there has been a high demand for a wearable health monitoring device assisting elderly to maintain their physical health conditions. Such devices are highly required to monitor elderly people with limited mobility living alone. As the healthcare costs are escalating there has been a need for an affordable option to monitor elderly people from a remote location, provide them the vital medical data at home, as well as connect them with the nearest professional healthcare providers. As a result, proposing an IoT-based wearable system that provides a real-time health monitoring for elderly people becomes essential. It keeps track of the health status of elderly people, alert healthcare professionals about any changes or abnormalities in real time and reminds elderly people about the defined medicine time. Furthermore, the use of a dynamic model that represents the changes of the elderly’ behavioural is highly important. This work proposes a new approach for healthcare monitoring using ThingSpeak IOT platform. This approach is modelled using multi-agent’s systems. It surveys vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature, as well as it provides fall detection and emergency alert functions.