Medical IoT Development of Pilgrims Health Monitoring System for Hajj and Umrah

Abstract

The increasing numbers of pilgrims each year make the Hajj seasons is more challenging especially in health services. The number of health services during Hajj season is approximately 32,000 peoples. By ratio, 1 labor force in health sector need to cater 73 pilgrims at a time. Not only that, the risk of disease is came from the effect of hot weather. Due to the problems faced, this project is aim to design and develop wearable Health Monitoring System for Hajj and Umrah Pilgrims, monitor two health parameter which is skin hydration and cough detection with a low cost system that promote the usage of Body Area Network (BAN) and Internet of Things platform. As this development is focusing on skin hydration and voice obstruction recognition, input sensor connected to the microcontroller act as a processor and coordinator from the input sensors to the user with the integration of Wi-Fi to analyze the data in real time through smartphone applications and cloud database. When the input measure passed the threshold limit, the wearables and smartphone application will notify the end user and the data can be access and stored on cloud storage. IoT implementation in Medical Healthcare practice especially in remote health monitoring would be beneficial for both party consumer and provider. However, this develop is intended to gives an early detection to the user only.