A Linear Quadratic Regression-Based Synchronised Health Monitoring System (SHMS) for IoT Applications

Abstract

In recent days, the IoT along with wireless sensor networks (WSNs), have been widely deployed for various healthcare applications. Nowadays, healthcare industries use electronic sensors to reduce human errors while analysing illness more accurately and effectively. This paper proposes an IoT-based health monitoring system to investigate body weight, temperature, blood pressure, respiration and heart rate, room temperature, humidity, and ambient light along with the synchronised clock model. The system is divided into two phases. In the first phase, the system compares the observed parameters. It generates advisory to parents or guardians through SMS or e-mails. This cost-effective and easy-to-deploy system provides timely intimation to the associated medical practitioner about the patient’s health and reduces the effort of the medical practitioner. The data collected using the proposed system were accurate. In the second phase, the proposed system was also synchronised using a linear quadratic regression clock synchronisation technique to maintain a high synchronisation between sensors and an alarm system. The observation made in this paper is that the synchronised technology improved the performance of the proposed health monitoring system by reducing the root mean square error to 0.379% and the R-square error by 0.71%.