Muhammed Fuzail Zubair, Hajrah Jahan, Sophia Rahaman and Roma Raina, Manipal University, UAE

The advent and advancement in technology specific to medical field has seen a migration of its work across the globe, adapting higher and newer levels of m-health. Technology has been successful in transforming the way traditional monitoring and alert system work to a modern approach wherein minimizing the need for physical monitoring. Today, the field of healthcare use varied monitoring systems to monitor the health of patients using ubiquitous and nonubiquitous devices. These are sensor based devices that can read vital signs of patients and send the data to the required personnel’s using mobile networks. This paper understands and analyses how the monitoring and alert system works specific to m-health. m-health including wearable and non-wearable devices read various vital signs and have the ability to monitor health real-time and transfer the information collected using mobile network. m-health has become an useful tool for elderly in this fast paced world where almost all the family members are working or studying to keep track and maintain optimal health status. m-health alert system involves the patient, the caretaker and medical service provider wherein the patient wears the device and vital signs recorded are transferred the medical service provider who then analyses the data collected and required changes in the medication are implemented. This paper proposes a medical alert system that enlightens the capabilities of m-health making health monitoring easy and reliable. It contains a three-level severity check and raises an alarm to the caretaker, the physician or the ambulatory service provider.

e-health; m-health; Wearable Wireless Sensor based Area Network; Data Mining.