Performance evaluation of a low-cost real time COVID-19 health monitoring system

Recently, and to cater for increased needs on health monitoring and data management for COVID-19 patients, there has been a growing interest on the market place as well as on the research community to develop low cost and real time COVID-19 health monitoring system for Sudanese Ministry of Health. Unfortunately, insufficient rooms in isolation centers and hospitals can cause huge risks on Corona patients. In addition, conventional monitoring techniques cannot provide adequate and accurate monitoring of the patients. Traditionally, health monitoring techniques relied on the direct manual approach to measure vital parameters and monitor patient’s health. However, this manual approach is impractical and costly in terms of time and effort. Moreover, the risk of contracting the disease for the medical staff will increase. Nowadays, Sudanese medical health companies and authorities are looking forward for an in-home Corona health monitoring system that enables good and quick recovery for Corona patients. The present paper seeks to address the performance evaluation for a real time system for monitoring the health status by reading the biomarkers (temperature, blood oxygen saturation, heart rate, and breathing rate) of corona patients remotely and at home using Internet of Things technologies. This work helps and supports COVID-19 patients to monitor their health at home and sending their report according to the system reading remotely with low cost and in real time environment. The obtained experimental data showed that the proposed system is capable of accurately, remotely and reliably monitoring the health monitoring continuously and in a real time with low cost.