(IJARAI) International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, No.11, 2013 25 | Page www.ijarai.thesai.org Frequent Physical Health Monitoring as Vital Signs with Psychological Status Monitoring for Search and Rescue of Handicapped, Diseased and Eldery Persons Kohei Arai 1 Graduate School of Science and Engineering Saga University Saga City, Japan Abstract—Method and system for frequent health monitoring as vital signs with psycholo9gical status monitoring for search and rescue of handicapped person is proposed. Heart beat pulse rate, body temperature, blood pressure, blesses and consciousness is well known vital signs. In particular for Alzheimer diseased persons, handicapped peoples, etc. it is very important to monitor vital signs in particular in the event of evacuation from disaster occurred areas together with location and attitude information. Then such persons who need help for evacuation can be survived. Through experiments wearing the proposed sensors with three normal persons including male and female, young and elder persons and one diseased person, it is found that the proposed system is useful. It is also found that the proposed system can be used for frequent health condition monitoring. Furthermore, physical health monitoring error due to psychological condition can be corrected with the proposed system. Keyword—-vital sign; heart beat puls ratee; body temperature; blood pressure; blesses; consciousnes; seonsor network I. INTRODUCTION Handicapped, disabled, diseased, elderly persons as well as peoples who need help in their ordinary life are facing too dangerous situation in event of evacuation when disaster occurs. In order to mitigate victims, evacuation system has to be created. Authors proposed such evacuation system as a prototype system already [1]-[4]. The system needs information of victims’ locations, physical and psychological status as well as their attitudes. Authors proposed sensor network system which consist GPS receiver, attitude sensor, physical health monitoring sensors which allows wearable body temperature, heart beat pulse rates; bless monitoring together with blood pressure monitoring [5]-[7]. Also the number of steps, calorie consumptions is available to monitor. Because it is difficult to monitor the blood pressure with wearable sensors, it is done by using the number of steps and body temperature. In addition to these, psychological status is highly required for vital sign monitoring (consciousness monitoring). By using eeg sensors, it is possible to monitor psychological status in the wearable sensor. These are components of the proposed physical health and psychological monitoring system. Such the proposed system also allows frequent monitoring. Even for every minute, or every second, it may monitor all the required items. Therefore it is applicable to the patients in ICU. Also, it may find Alzheimer patients who used to walk away from their house and /or hospitals together with physical health and psychological status. Furthermore, it may reduce physical health monitoring error due to psychological status changes. Even for the healthy persons, it may occur such errors. For instance, heart beat pulse rate and blood pressure is used to be increased when medical doctor or nurse measures. By using eeg signal analyzed results, such errors may be corrected or at least it can be omitted from the monitored data. These are kinds of bi-products of the proposed system. Section 2 describes the proposed system followed by experiment method and results. Then conclusion is described together with some discussions.. II. PROPOSED MOTHOD AND SYSTEM A. System Configuration Figure 1 shows the entire system configuration of the proposed physical and psychological health monitoring system. Fig. 1. Entire system configuration of the proposed wearable physical and psychological health monitoring system. There are two types of stakeholders, patients (users) and volunteers who are responsible for evacuation, rescue, and help patients from disaster area as shown in Figure 2. Patients have physical and psychological health sensors and send the acquired data through Bluetooth and Internet to the Health Data Collection Center: HDCC server. On the other hand, volunteers receive health data of the previously designated