DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEARABLE HEALTH DEVICE

Many situations arise every day where humans have to worry about their health and fitness. further monitoring critical human body parameters in reliable and regular manner helps clinical practitioners and common person to take critical decisions and improve life quality. with advancements in microelectronics and sensor technology, it has become possible to design and develop small size wearable devices for clinical and home usage that give and record regular health related data. the current work presents design and development of a small wearable device that measures pulse rate, oxygen saturation, skin and body temperature using high-accuracy pulse oximeter sensor and temperature sensors. the pulse/oxygen saturation and skin/body temperature data from sensors is fed to analog front end (afe) devices afe 4490 and lmp 90100 by texas instruments respectively. the data is further processed at an ultra low-power mixed signal micro-controller, msp430f5338 of texas instruments and fed to bluetooth transceiver. the processed data giving the requisite health parameters is further displayed on the hand held device and can be periodically send to pdas or to a central server through bluetooth transceiver.