Health and home monitoring system based on Arduino and smartwatches

Hello, my name is Han Weisi, I’m from Chinaand I study at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Now I am working at Sabien laboratory to domy final year project.

The title of my project is design and developmentof a pervasive monitoring system based on the Arduino smart home kit and smartwatches.

The objective of my project is to design acomprehensive monitoring platform based on Arduino Smart Home Sensor Kit and e-HealthSensor Kit, which is able to collect the data from sensors, send commands to control thesensors, and use an attractive way to display the sensor data in different interfaces.

The final system will be deployed in two scenarios:the first one is the Desktop Computer with Windows 10 Operating System and the secondone is the Raspberry Pi with Windows 10 IoT Core Operating System.

Here comes the sensor selection.

After understanding the basic functionalityand user scenarios of each sensor, I divided my system into two parts: the biometric informationdetection part and environmental information detection part.

For the environmental part, I used the temperatureand humidity sensor, the photosensitive resistance and motion sensor and for the biometric partI used: the EMG sensor, the airflow sensor, the GSR, body temperature and ECG sensor.

Here is the architecture of my whole system.

On one side of the system, all of the fivebiometric sensors would be integrated on one Arduino board and three environmental sensorswould be integrated on another Arduino board.

On the other side of the system, differentinterfaces would be used to display the sensor data, I mean the pebble watch and web page.

In terms of communication between the webpage and the Arduino boards, a software that uses the choreography engine would be developed.

It would be connected to the web page by usingWi-Fi and communicated with the Arduino board using serial communication.

The system will be first deployed in PC andthen ported to the raspberry pi.

In terms of the pebble watch, it must be connectedto the Raspberry pi via Bluetooth so that further communications can be ensured.

During the implementation process, I foundsome difficulties and the first one is the communication with the pebble.

Although we have successfully connect thedevices, when we tried to sending data to the pebble it fails.

Maybe we have to try to use a special messageformat to send the data.

The other problem is that, in both deploymentscenarios, the Arduino boards has to be connect to the choreography engine by the USB.

Although it provides a reliable and stabledata transmission, it is not very flexible because of the short data transmission distance.

So, when we used the Bluetooth for data transmissionbecause of the slow data transfer rate it cannot send much more data in a short timeperiod, so it is not feasible for the e-health platform.

To now I have finished the integration ofe-health sensors and environmental sensors and I have developed a sensor platform whichcan be deployed in the PC platform and raspberry pi platform.

Besides, I can also use a local database tostore my sensor data and I can upload my data to the uAAL platform.

And last but not least I can display all ofmy sensor data in a fashionable way that is the web page.

And that’s all, thank you.

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