Internet of Things technologies in cardiovascular diseases diagnostics: Literature review and proposal

Objective: Heart diseases occur for various age groups and the huge percentage of people lost their life due to the heart disease.Heart attack occurs regardless of age and it leads to the death.The aim of the study is to propose the Internet-of Things based electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system that can be used for detection of heart disease.Methods: This proposed work is the detailed framework for monitoring of heart rate using ECG through internet.This work discusses Internet of Things (IoT) based ECG monitoring system through the ECG sensor and the embedded system utilized to process the heart related parameters and send the level of oxygen, blood pressure, pulse rate and temperature to the doctor for monitoring and further treatment.It detects the variation in the rate of heart beat using ECG and sends it to the doctor's mobile through Wi-Fi for diagnosis.Results: Heart specialist has the provision of monitoring of patient heart conditions through his/her mobile.The scope of this work is to identify the heart problem through the ECG waveform.When the range of heartbeat becomes irregular, then the software send the information to the doctor about heartbeat is out of range.The indicator light and alarm signal is given as notification to the doctor to indicate the emergency.Based on this alarm signal, doctor will give suitable treatment by checking the conditions of the patient.Conclusion: This work allows doctors to determine the severity of patient's condition very easy and allows administering the corresponding treatment.