Personal Lung Function Monitoring

Devices for Asthma Patients Using

IOT

ADITYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SURAMPALEM

Under the guidance of

Mr.P.Praveen,M.tech
Sr.Asst.Prof.

Abstract

This project deals with the design and development of Personal

lung function monitoring device for Asthma patients. Home
monitoring of lung function is the preferred course of action.
Thus, it is important to develop accurate and efficient asthma
monitoring devices that are easy for patients to use.

In this project we are going to design a user-friendly, accurate,

and portable external mobile device accessory that collects
spirometry, peak expiratory flow, exhaled nitric oxide, carbon
monoxide, and oxygen concentration information from patients
after two breath maneuvers.

We will also develop a

stores the gathered test
physician. Which allow
appropriate changes in
quickly.

software application that records and

information and e-mails the results to a
physicians the opportunity to make
a patient's medication regimen more

Block Diagram

Tools Required
Hardware Tools:
Raspberry-Pi
Pressure Sensors
Electro Chemical Sensors
ADC

Software Tools:
Python
Java Script
Html and CSS

Project Schedule & Plan of Action

Processor

Selection
Sensor Selection and Calibration
Reading data from the sensors
UI creation
Updating
the
data
to
the
webpage
Flow chamber design

Processor Selection

In this we are going to use Raspberry-Pi in the place

of Arduino due to its additional features like we can
extend the project for future use.

Raspberry Piis a single board computer. (System on

Chip SoC) based on Broadcom BCM2835 which
includes ARM11Processor, Video Core IV GPU, 512MB
RAM(B and B+ models). Only the left thing is
footprint, you need to insert a Secured Digital Card
(SD Card) in the provided slot for boot media and
storage.

Sensor Selection & Calibration

Pressure Sensors:

Pressure sensors, typically used to measure air, gas, or fluid

pressure, are often designed using piezoelectric sensors or
quartz sensors. Theiranalog output can be either voltage,
such as 1-5V, or current, such as 4-20mA.

Electro Chemical Sensors:

Here we are going to use NO,CO and O2 sensors for

calculating the percentage of gases in our exhaled airby
these parameters we get to know about the condition of a
patient.

Reading Data From Sensors

In this stage we want to get the data from the sensors

using ADC and SPI interface.

If we want to use the analog sensors on Raspberry-Pi

we have to use an ADC because R-pi is not having a
built in analog so here we are going to connect the
sensors through ADC.

After this we have to enable the SPI interface in R-Pi for

establishing the communication between R-Pi and
sensors.

Storing the sensor Data in Database

Here we are going to store the data collected from
the sensors to the database.
So for this when we run a code in R-Pi then we get
the printed output on the terminal so weve to store
this in database we are going to save all the printed
data from the sensors in a text file.
From here we are updating the test data to user
interface where we are going to visualize all the
data gathered from the sensors.

UI Creation

In this stage we are creating an interface for visualizing

the patients data by physicians and care takers using
web or mobile interface.

To know whether the test is performed or not we are

going to create auto generated message to the
physicians and care takers immediately.

For Creating this we are going to use HTML,CSS and Java

scripting.

Here we are going to update all the recorded values of

sensors which were stored in the database from time to
time and we get the output from them in graphs related
to each sensor what we are using.

Flow Chamber Design

To measure the flow rate of exhaled breath, a thin

plate orifice volume flow meter was tailored for the
expected pulmonary flow rates.
This type of volume flow meter allows an
instantaneous flow rate measurement in a pipe and
follows the Bernoulli obstruction theory, which
describes the properties of a flow that is forced by an
obstruction.

Conclusion
Personal Lung Function Device for Asthma Patients is
a novel portable simple device for measuring the
parameters of a patient who constantly in the
supervision of a physician, Which is complex and cost
effective so here we want to design a device whichll be
useful to the patients by using the process stated
above.