Health Monitoring and Tracking System for Soldiers Using

Internet of Things (IoT)

Abstract

In today’s world the security of the nation is depends upon the enemies’ warfare and so
the safety of the soldiers is considered as vital role in it. The security of any nation
depends on military, army, air-force & navy of country and the backbone of all these
forces are our soldier. one of the fundamental charges in military operations lies in that
soldier not able to communicate with control room station. In this project the exact
location and health status parameter of soldier can be sent to be base station in real time
so that the appropriate action can be taken in case of crisis. GPS is used to log the
longitude and latitude so that direction can be known easily. Here to find the health status
of the soldier we are using the body temperature sensor to measure the temperature of
body as well as heart beat rate to measure heart beat rate of soldier. The IoT makes the
entire monitoring process fast, efficient and the decisions can be taken in less amount of
time. So by using these equipments we are trying to implement the basic life gurding
system for soldier in low cost and high reliability. So by using these equipments we are
trying to implement the basic life guarding system for soldier in low cost and high
reliability.
Introduction

In current world scenario, the security of a nation is the uttermost important factor and the
security of nation depends on the army force. Without the soldier it would be nearly
impossible to protect a nation. There is a necessity to develop a wearable technology
which isn’t bulky and dissipates very little power in the defense sector so that the location
and vital health parameters of the soldiers can be tracked in real time when he is on the
battlefield. Using this soldier navigation system the base station can guide the soldier to
reach the desired destination.
So this project focus on tracking the location of soldier from GPS, which is useful for
control room station to know the exact location of soldier and accordingly they with guide
them. Also high speed, short range soldier to soldier wireless communication to relay
information on situational awareness such as biomedical sensors GPS navigation,
wireless communication. The biosensor consist of temperature sensor and heart beat
sensor. The main essence of this project is that it is an Internet of Things (IoT) based
project. IoT systems are systems that consist of interrelated machines (mechanical or
digital), computing devices, animals, peoples and other objects which have unique
functionalities. Using the IoT, their data can be transferred from one place to another over
the network without the computer to computer and human to computer intervention. The
relevance of IoT in Soldier Navigation and Health Monitoring system is that the real time
location and health parameters of the soldier on the battlefield are instantaneously sent to
the base station without the soldier having to input anything. The IoT makes the entire
monitoring process fast, efficient and the decisions can be taken in less amount of time.

Relevance of the Project

By using the sensors and the Physiological data and signals are acquired through
patient monitor devices at hospitals and also through portable wireless system monitors at
other faraway from hospitals such as home and all. The conditions of patient and the
situations related to health are acquire through sensors and process it through
communication unit and doctors can diagnose correctly at right time so that we can save
the life of patient at the critical conditions.

In village and small city’s there not available specialist doctors so we can connect
them through wireless technology and save the life of the patient at critical conditions.
Then for aged people they can’t walk they are week so at that time also we can consult a
doctor through internet they access the patient conditions and diagnose properly. We can
reduce traffic and then pollutions like sound and all in hospital.

Literature Survey

The authors[1][2][3] had discussed on various wearable, portable, light weighted and
small sized sensors that have been developed for monitoring of the human physiological
parameters. The Body Sensor Network (BSN) consists of many biomedical and
physiological sensors such as blood pressure sensor, electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor,
electro dermal activity (EDA) sensor which can be placed on human body for health
monitoring in real time. In this paper, we propose a methodology to develop a system for
real time health monitoring of soldiers, consisting of interconnected BSNs. The
authors[4] had introduced a system that gives ability to track the soldiers at any moment.
The soldiers will be able to communicate with control unit using GPS coordinate
information in their distress. It is able to send the sensed and processed parameters of
soldier in real time. It enables to army control unit to monitor health parameters of
soldiers like heartbeat, body temperature, etc using body sensor networks. The parameters
of soldiers are wirelessly transmitted using GSM. The authors[5][6][7][8] had presented
an idea for the safety of soldiers using sensors to monitor the health status of soldiers as
well as ammunitions on them. GPS module has been used for location tracking and RF
module has been used for high speed, short-range data transmission, for wireless
communications between soldier-to soldier that will help to provide soldiers health status
and location data to control unit[9][16]. The authors[10][15] had investigated for the care
of critically ill patients. This paper is based on monitoring the health of remote patients,
after they get discharged from hospital. This system enables the doctors to monitor health
parameters like body temperature, heartbeat and ECG of patients from their clinic or
hospital. The health parameters of patient are measured continuously and transmitted
wirelessly through ZigBee[12][13][14] transceiver.

Objectives
 Design an efficient system is being proposed which has an application of tracking
the soldier’s location and health parameters during the war.
 The base station can access the current status of the soldier which is displayed on
the PC and this system uses the IOT.
 By using the ECG and Body Temp sensors are used in to diagnose and improve
the quality of life and reduce the cost of bed from hospital.
 By giving correct diagnosis at right time to Soldier by sitting somewhere else so
this technology is used to reduce the death rate of Soldier.

Methodology
The basic block diagram of Soldier Unit in GPS and IoT based soldier tracking and
Health Indication System is show in the fig above. ARM 7,GPS Receiver , Max232 , GSM
Module ,IoT handset ,Temperature Sensor ,Heart Rate Sensor . In this module, we
have come up with an idea of tracking the soldier as well as to give the health status of
the soldier during the war, which enables the army personnel to plan the war strategies.
By using, the location sent by the GPS the base station can guide the soldier to safe area.
Here to find the health status of soldier we are using a body temp sensor as well as pulse
rate sensor. These sensors will measure the body temperature and the pulse rate of soldier
and will be stored in μc memory. These signals, travelling at the speed of light, are
intercepted by your GPS, which calculates how far away each satellite is based on how
long it took for the messages to arrive. These sensors will help to sense physical
parameters & informs to Base Station through GSM. This unit is carry by the soldier.
This creates a database that contains information about the soldier. Server is use to
monitor the status of the soldier. In addition, if there is any abnormality in the status
of soldier it indicates a message.
In this unit upon receiving the SMS, the software shows the solder’s location on
Google maps based on the GPS co-ordinates also the health status is displayed. In
this way, the army officials can keep a track of all their solders.

Block Diagram

ECG Sensor
INTERNET
Cloud
Serial
ARM
Communication GPRS
Processor
Temp Sensor Unit
LPC2148

GPS module
Base
station
PC / Tab

Hardware and Software

Hardware Requirements
 LPC2148 Microcontroller
 Heart Beat Sensor
 Body temperature sensor
 GPRS SIM900 module
 Personal computer/Tab
 GPS module
Software Requirements
 Keil Micro vision 4
 Flash Utility2000
 Java Programming
 Cloud Computing

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