IoT-based smart tracking of body temperature for healthcare

Remote health care for patients at home or in hospitals from newborn babies to the elderly is increasing due to the popularity of various developed mobile devices. The Internet of things (IoT) and the mobile technologies make it easier to monitor the patients’ health conditions by sharing their information with health care teams such as doctors, nurses, and specialists.

In the 21st century, we want to relate to anything, anytime, and anywhere. IoT is being adopted around the globe in a variety of industries. The core component of this hyper-connected society is IoT, also referred to as Machine–to–Machine (M2M) communication.

We designed an IoT-based hardware and software for healthcare systems which support the healthcare personnel and caretakers to monitor their patients’ health conditions via the Internet remotely.

Regularly high or low body temperature at a particular duration of time or an event affects our body function which then affects daily routines, creates health issues, causing a change in medication with the help of a doctor resulting in a loss of good health, time, and money. For example, the bacterial infection can cause the body temperature to fluctuate. In fact, it’s one of the most common causes of change in the body temperature. Since viruses and bacteria have a hard time surviving at temperatures higher than the normal body temperature, the body detects a bacterial infection, it involuntarily increases its temperature and increases blood flow to speed up the body’s defense actions to fight the infection. It’s not uncommon for the body to raise its body temperature as much as 3 to 5°F to fight off an infection. Because elevated body temperature also causes harm to the body, we don’t want to let prolonged high temperatures go untreated.