Web server based remote health monitoring system

In this paper a new solution of a home monitoring system is presented. Home monitoring makes possible for the patient to measure different physical parameters at home, and for the physician to check the results anywhere without personal meeting. Contrary to conventional home monitoring systems, the realized system uses distributed data storage of patients´ data, instead of using a remote server to store all the data. A fully functional home monitoring system has been realized, that contains a microcontroller based Web server to store patient data. This unit collects data via Bluetooth from a small size wearable electrocardiograph (ECG) device designed and constructed by the authors. The size of the realized Web server is 9middot11middot3 cm - wmiddotlmiddoth, and the power consumption is only 2 W. The stored data can be accessed via internet. The remote client runs a Java application stored on the microcontroller based Web server. The physician uses this Java application to access and view patients´ data in a remote location and to form a diagnosis.