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AUTOMATED PARALYSIS PATIENT
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
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Diptee Gaikar, 2Pradnya Porlekar, 3Divya Shetty, 4Akash Shitkar, 5Prof.Kalindi Kalebere
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Student, Student,3Student,4Student,Associate Professor 1Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department, 1Shivajirao S.
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Jondhale College Of Engineering, Dombivli(E), India
Abstract: We come across hospitals and NGOs serving paralytic patients who have their whole or partial body disabled
by the Paralysis attack. These people in most cases are not able to convey their needs as they are neither able to speak
properly nor do they convey through sign language due to loss in motor control by their brain. In such a situation we
propose a system that helps disabled person in displaying a message over the LCD by just simple motion of any part of his
body which has motion abilities. This system also takes care of the situation where in no one is present to attend the patient
and thus sending a message through GSM of what he wants to convey in SMS. There are several instruction of movement
gesture sensors presented in the paper in order to assist health officer in helping the paralyzed patient to complete their
needs. The user now just needs to tilt the device in a particular angle to convey the message. Thus, by tilting device one
can convey message easily. So, this system can help them out to convey a message.
Index Terms -
I. INTRODUCTION
Paralysis is the inability to move muscles on your own and with purpose. It can be temporary or permanent. The
most common causes are stroke, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis. Paralysis can be a complete loss of movement
known as plegia, or a significant weakness called paresis. Paralysis is most often caused by damage in the nervous
system, especially the spinal cord. Other major causes are stroke, trauma with nerve injury, poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy,
peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, ALS, botulism, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, and Guillain—Barre
syndrome. For example, monoplegia/ mono paresis is complete loss of movement or weakness of one limb.
Hemiplegia/hemiparesis is complete loss of movement or weakness of arm and leg on same side of the body.
Paraplegia/paraparesis is complete loss or weakening of both legs. Tetraplegia /tetra paresis or
quadriplegia/quadriparesis is complete loss or weakness of both arms and both legs.
Paralysis is caused by injury or disease affecting the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) which means
that the nerve signals sent to the muscles is interrupted. Paralysis can also cause a number of associated secondary
conditions, such as urinary incontinence and bowel incontinence.
Though, there are innovative approaches for curing or treating paralysis patients, but the aim of treatment is to
help a person adapt to life with paralysis by making them as independent as possible. Where we see a problem with these
types of devices that are being developed is that they are very large and expensive machines. They seem to be only
available in hospitals and not able to be used at the patient’s home or at their convenience. Our goal is to make a device
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that will be able to retrain a patient's motion but have them be able to use the device themselves and have it be cheap
enough for them to afford without much debt.
II. EXISTING SYSTEM
The project used the technology in telecommunication, where the evolution in telecommunication was applied in this
project by using GSM module SIM900A. At the same time, a few circuit and software are used to be a controller for all
the main and sub equipment. A few components like microcontroller and GSM module are used. By using the gesture
sensor, it will aid the patient to convey anything that they want through the GSM module by sending message. The function
of this sensor is that the patient just needs to move the body part to which the sensor is attached to convey a message.
Besides this, the data will be displayed at the LED screen to know what the patient want to convey. On the other hand, the
buzzer will sound when there is any emergency case and the SMS alert will be sent to the care taker of the patient. The
main aim of this project is to help paralyzed patient to convey their message or need.
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM
The proposed system helps in communication for the paralyzed patients using simple hand gestures. The
accelerometers are mounted on the gloves such that each accelerometer pertains to each finger. This accelerometer is
connected with the help of connecting wires to the Arduino UNO which is Atmega8. The initial or stable value of the
accelerometer changes when the direction of the accelerometer is changed. According to this value, the messages that are
pre-coded such as "call the doctor" or "emergency" are displayed. The beep sound propels the system in order to alarm
when the message is displayed to alert the attendants of the patients.
Figure 3.1. Proposed System
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3.1.SYSTEM CONFIGURATION PROCESS
Figure 3.2. Block Diagram of the System
The first unit in this project is accelerometer that is capable of detecting the gestures due to change in position. On
the change of position, the sensor gives the Analog variation of the voltage on its x, y and z pins. We convert this Analog
variation into digital format using Op-Amp As comparator in which we set a threshold voltage (comparison) using preset
and the according to the input voltage the voltage is either high or low. LM324 is quad op-amp IC used here. This circuit
generates various 4-bit binary sequences on the change of its position. This sequence is transmitted over RF channel. The
transmitter section will be attached to accelerometer circuit which will give parallel binary data as input to the HT12E
encoder that encodes the parallel data to serial data. Now this serial data is transmitted over 434Mhz carrier channel using
ASK modulation through a short dipole antenna.
IV. LITERATURE SURVEY
The opportunity for patients to have constant monitoring of their health state is now possible by means of
intelligent sensors. The continuous monitoring of health status is a fundamental practice for paralytic patients. In a hospital
either the nurse or the doctor has to move physically from one patient to other for continuous health monitoring, due to
which it is not possible to monitor one patient continuously. Thus, any critical condition cannot be identified unless the
doctor or nurse check the patient’s health at that time. So, a system is developed to convey a message from patient to
person monitoring his health.
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Year Author Title Objective Methodology
July D Shiva Rama IOT based patient Nowadays Health- This system basically uses a sensor
Krishnan, Subhash health monitoring care Environment technology and internet to
2018
system. has developed communicate message to their loved
Chand science and ones. It uses temperature and heartbeat
knowledge based
Gupta, on Wireless- sensor to measure the rates and
Sensing node monitor the patient’s health.
Tanupriya
Technology
Choudhury
oriented. This is
designed for
monitoring patient’s
health and alerting
their loved ones on
the same.
July Jaiee Sitaram Patient monitoring It is used to monitor Heart rate is measured from the index
system using the patient’s heart finger using IRD (Infrared Device)
2017 Adivarkar
GSM rate and sensor. The device alarms when
technology. heart
temperature. rate and body temperature exceed
the threshold value. The sensor
measures the information and
transmits through GSM modem.
Jan Bandana Mallick Heartrate A measurement of It is supported by the principle of
2016 monitoring system heart rate through a photoplethysmography (PPG) that is
using fingertip tip and Arduino. non- invasive methodology of measure
through Arduino the variation in blood volume in tissue
and processing employing a source of illumination
software. and detector. The signal may be
amplified and is shipped to Arduino
with the assist of process computer
code pulse watching and investigating
is performed.
March Kumara K R Sensor based In extreme case of The patient is made to wear the
Wearable system to paralysis, the sensor gloves. When the patient
2017
assist paralytic patient may be bends his/her fingers to express the
patient with speech impaired requirements it will be interpreted into
continuous health which makes it auditory speech through which the
monitoring. difficult to convey patient’s caretaker can understand the
the message. So, needs of patient.
this provides
solutions to these
inabilities.
FIGURE 4.1 LITERATURE SURVEY
V. RESULTS
The main aim of the project was the development of automated paralysis patient healthcare system
using GSM. And we have already tested the time taken for receiving SMS from GSM module to the hardware
component, i.e., mobile or device to which output is connected. Based on that the analysis of the
performance of the system is done. Paralysis patient's need to be taken care almost for 24 hours and they
need someone beside them all the time to be taken care of. So based on the gesture they can convey the
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message to the care taker and the output is the digital format. Based on the gestures the output is digitalized.
Figure 5.1. Activation of Device
Figure 5.2. Output of The Circuit
VI. CONCLUSION
Though there already exists a several systems to monitor the paralyzed patient's health, there are not many systems
that focuses on communication of them. But this system bridges the gap between the patient and others via communication
and helps the paralyzed patient to relieve their stress by revealing their thoughts and help them to motivate as much as
possible. And this system is cheap enough to afford without much debt and is useful also.
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VII. FUTURE SCOPE
The future scope of the project: In future, the system can be made smart and efficient by making the goggle wireless for
eyeblink detection. It can be made by using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology. So as to make system efficient and secure as
well as easy to handle. Also, for constant patient monitoring some indications for security can be added like light indicators.
Instead of using GSM module monitor patient’s parameters on mobile in case of if patient is in hospital. So, it becomes
useful in hospitals for continuous monitoring of body parameters on doctors mobile or main mobile of hospital ward.
According to the availability of sensors or development in biomedical trend more parameter can be sensed and monitored
which will drastically improve the efficiency of the wireless monitoring system in biomedical field.
A graphical LCD can be used to display a graph of rate of change of health parameters over time. The whole patient's
healthcare monitoring system which we have framed can be integrated into a small compact unit as small as a cell phone or a
wrist or smart watch. This device is easy to handle the patients or other persons.
VIII. REFERENCES
[1] E. N. Ganesh, "Health Monitoring System using Raspberry Pi and IOT" published in Oriental Journal
of Computer Science and Technology, Volume 12, No 1,2019
[2] Shubham Banka, Isha Madan, S.S. Saranya, "Smart Healthcare Monitoring using IOT" published in
International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 13, No 15,2018
[3] Abhijeet Botre, "Assistance system for paralyzed" published in International Journal Of Innovative
Research In Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation And Control Engineering, Volume 4,1ssue 5,
2016.
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