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Smart Military Healthcare Monitoring and Tracking System on Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Authors:
Ali Bazzi
Moslem Ghamloush
Mostafa Ibrahim
Majd Ghareeb
Samih Abdul-Nabi
Hassan Khachfe

Keywords: Healthcare monitoring; tracking system; Raspberry Pi; Raspbian; ESP8266; Arduino; Wifi communication.

Abstract:
Although technology advances cannot help in limiting the dreadfulness of war, they can at least be deployed to reduce war effects and casualties. One way to help in this aim could be by tracking and monitoring the location and health situation of troops in the battle. The main objective of the work presented in this paper is to design and implement a complete tracking system that is composed of a mini portable server as a central unit hosted on a Raspberry Pi to read soldier’s location, state, and health information through wireless communication from a small monitoring unit that is attached to the soldier's arm. Moreover, the system provides an emergency button that requests help when pressed if a soldier is facing an urgent problem. A set of test cases has been applied and the results achieved by our prototype have presented a promising accuracy and efficiency when applying such a system.

Pages: 29 to 32

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: November 12, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-604-0

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 12, 2017 to November 16, 2017