The purpose of this project is to design a Smart Pillow using IOT for providing a good quality of sleep for the person or patient. The advances in information and communication technologies have led to the emergence of Internet of Things (IOT).In the modern health care environment, the usage of IOT technologies brings convenience of physicians and patients, since they are applied to various medical areas (such as real-time monitoring, patient information management, and healthcare management). The patient can be monitored and sophisticated by different parameters like touch identification-based music activation, Android mobile-based alarm settings, gyro sensor-based sleeping analysis plotting into the blynk, snoring detection using sound detection sensor etc. Internet of things, IoT, as an important part of the new generation of information technology, have developed rapidly both in theory and practice since proposed and derived many applications such as smart home, intelligent environmental monitoring. Things not only liberated a lot of manpower, but also achieved a standardized, automated management. Arduino is an open source, computer hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures microcontroller kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical world. The ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module is a self-contained SOC with integrated TCP/IP protocol stack that can give any microcontroller access to your Wi-Fi network. The ESP8266 is capable of either hosting an application or offloading all Wi-Fi networking functions from another application processor.

         

The main purpose of the project is to construct an intelligent smart pillow system which is used to provide a good sleep and also monitors the analysis of patient sleeping quality. The main features of the project are mentioned below-

 

1. Gyro sensor MPU6050 based patient sleeping analysis plotting onto the PC or Laptop using blynk app based on IOT Wi-Fi wireless technology.
2. Sound sensor-based snoring of the patient detection and automatically activates the vibration motor along with the activation of music system.
3. Touch or Identification sensor is used to detect the presence of the patient or person on the smart pillow and when the sensor detects the presence of person on Pillow the system automatically activates the music system.
4. User can also control the Music system manually using ON/OFF switch connected with speakers interfaced with MMC/SD card along with the driver circuit.

5. Android mobile based respective time entry for both alarm activation using vibration motor and also for music system activation.

The system provides both automatic and manual control of the pleasant music which is interfaced with the speakers along with the MMC/SD card reader and driver. This system acts as human-machine communication system. This device is very helpful for paralysis, bed patients, heart patients, Cancer patients and physically challenged persons. An Arduino microcontroller is the main heart of the entire system which is interfaced with input and output modules. The system uses Touch identification sensor, gyro sensor, sound detection sensor, Wi-Fi ESP8266 module, Vibration motor, manual ON/OFF switch for music system, card reader, MMC/SD card driver, speaker are interfaced with the microcontroller. To perform this intelligent task, Arduino Microcontroller is loaded with a program written in C language in Arduino software.

 

The major building blocks of this project are:

1. Regulated power supply.
2. Arduino Microcontroller.
3. Crystal oscillator.
4. Reset Button.
5. LED indicators.
6. Wi-Fi module.
7. Gyro sensor MPU6050
8. Sound detection sensor
9. Touch identification sensor
10. Vibration motors
11. Card Reader
12. MMC/SD card
13. MMC/SD card driver
14. Speakers

Software’s used in the project:

1. Arduino IDE.
2. Express SCH for Circuit Design.

   

   

Regulated Power Supply:      

   

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