IoT enabled distributed cardiac monitoring using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensing technology

Monitoring of physiological parameters during treatment procedure is vital, thus recommended in various medical conditions such as claustrophobia, pediatric, implanted artificial pacemakers, dementia, coma, and local anesthesia conditions etc. Further, electronic equipment and sensors are not allowed to be used everywhere inside the healthcare facility and medical experts are typically not aware about the patient’s cardiac conditions. Therefore, there is a requirement of such additional systems in the already existing or new healthcare facilities. As of now, many research works have been published for design and test various sensing schemes using FBGs. However, there is no cost effective solution available yet, which is in practice at commercial healthcare facilities. The proposed work provides an experimental validation of such cardiac and respiration monitoring systems to develop a test case in a real scenario. The design considerations and process of the sensor element is discussed in details in this article. In addition to that the implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) based approach for remote monitoring and notification mechanism are portrayed in this article.