Integrating wearables with cloud-based communication for health monitoring and emergency assistance

Researchers and physicians have come a long way in inventing various types of wearable devices for health monitoring which makes it easier for medical professionals to monitor patients. Considering a situation, when a patient is driving, his/her health cannot be monitored or assisted immediately in case of emergency due to enormous drawbacks in the communication or the reporting system which is of today's prime issue. The cloud-based communication helps solving the issue to some extent but inventing an application to integrate any wearable device to the Internet of things (IoT) and the cloud, considering portability and robustness will solve the prime issue. In this paper, we demonstrate a prototype working model along with the healthdetect iOS app for monitoring health data (heart rate) using wearables, if a serious heart rate data is detected by this app, from proximity sensor on the wearables, the microcontroller in the vehicle enables the healthlocateapp to locate and route to the nearest hospitals for the driver to drive. If the condition is critical and he/she is not responding for in-vehicle button press or driver related activity, then the microcontroller sends CAN message to activate the auto pilot to pull over for assistance. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.