Driver Warning Assistant for Monitoring Heart Rate and SpO₂ Using Mobile Phones

Abstract:

Nowadays both mobile phones and vehicles are playing an important role in our lives, because these two industries have met an amazing development during the recent years. Also, steady progress has been made in the medical sensors field and the increasing capacity of wireless communication has led to the emergence of new methods for health monitoring. This paper presents a system for real-time monitoring of the driver's health. The proposed driver warning assistant is composed of a wearable low-power sensor that dynamically monitors the vital parameters of the driver and the measured data are sent via Bluetooth wireless communication protocol. Data processing, data management and communication and the human computing interfacing are implemented using a smart phone running an Android operation system. Experimental results associated with physiological parameters which have been measured are also included in the paper.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 656)
• Pages: 395-402
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.656.395
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Adrian Iulian Dumitru*, Gheorghe Leonte Mogan
• Keywords: Android System, Bluetooth Communication Protocol, Driver, Heart Rates, Pulse Oximeter, Smart Phones, SpO₂

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