Low-Cost Smart COVID-19 Patient Monitoring and Support System

ABSTRACT

Social distancing, isolation, and quarantining are very familiar words since the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). COVID - 19 is a highly contagious pathogenic viral infection. It is very risky to get close contact with people who have COVID-19 symptoms or COVID-19 positive;nevertheless, covid patient monitoring is also significant for saving his/her life. To solve the Covid-19 pandemic situation accentuates a focus on remote patient monitoring. A small smart healthcare support system is built to monitor COVID-19 patients' health status and the patient emergency abet. This system can also trace the patient location;thus, aid can be provided to the patient promptly. This system uses a respiration sensor, oxygen saturation sensor, temperature sensor, heart rate sensor, GPS. All the sensors, as well as GPS, are connected with Arduino-Uno. By processing sensor data, the smart system can discern the patient's critical condition and forward this information to the doctor/nurse or hospital in charge and patient relative's smartphone as a text message. This paper aims to develop a system to support COVID-19 patients and develop a remote healthcare platform for monitoring pandemic situations and providing emergency aid promptly as a text to the smartphone. © 2021 IEEE.