Intelligent Mobile Body Temperature Monitoring Management System for Nursing Home

ABSTRACT

Public health security is a common challenge facing all mankind and requires efforts from worldwide countries. Since the beginning of 2020, the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 has affected everyone around the world. Thermometers have played a crucial role in the fight against the pandemic. For example, public places like airports and stations are all equipped with necessary temperature-measuring devices such as medical thermometers, infrared ear thermometers, and thermal imagers. Traditional mercury thermometers not only easily break, but also take a long time to measure body temperature and are difficult to read. As staffers need to be assigned to measure people's temperature, infrared ear thermometers and thermal imagers increase the chances of cross infection and are unable to provide real-time and continuous data, making temperature monitoring and management during the pandemic much more difficult. This paper will introduce an intelligent mobile body temperature monitoring and management system (IMBTMMS) particularly designed for nursing homes. Besides monitoring body temperature on a real-time and continuous basis, the system also provides heart rate and blood oxygen data and intelligently recommends relaxing music solutions. The sensor pad is connected to the mobile app via Bluetooth, with the server on the cloud integrated with an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. By regularly processing body temperature, heart rate, and blood oxygen data, the system offers real-time and continuous monitoring, forecasting, warning, and management services. Targeting at use in nursing home, the system enables large-scale monitoring and management, which greatly eases the shortage of manpower during the pandemic and reduces the risk of cross infection. Finally, the system is highly extendable as it can be connected with offline and online medical services, which can be customized as per different demands. © 2021 IEEE.