Development of a SMS based remote diabetes monitoring system

Abstract

Blood glucose monitoring is crucial to control diabetes. Daily blood glucose monitoring is very important to reduce the risk of complications and improve the quality of life. Thus, regular measurement of blood glucose level is very much effective for controlling diabetes. One of the burdens faced by the diabetic patients is high frequency of visits to hospital for treatment. This is time consuming and incurs high expenses to patients. This project presents the development of a convenient blood glucose monitoring system. In this monitoring system, diabetic patients measure their blood glucose regularly . at home or anywhere. Then, the measured data is sent to the doctor through short message service (SMS) using mobile phone. At the doctor's end, the received data is stored in a database, which is managed by a database management system (DBMS). The DBMS provides a centralized storage and management of the chronological diabetic data. The developed system gives complete diabetes information of the patients to doctor for analysis and diagnosis. The doctor then can send advice and proper medications for the patients using the proposed system. As a result the proposed system saves the diabetic patients from the burden of visiting doctors frequently which leads to a significant reduction of cost and save their invaluable time.