Smart Shoe for Health Screening

Baharudin Bin Hamzah Muhammad Nazreen Bin Kamaruddin Mohamad Danial Bin Rasyidi
Faculty of Information Sciences & Faculty of Information Sciences & Faculty of Information Sciences &
Engineering Engineering Engineering
Management and Science University Management and Science University Management and Science University
Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
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 Abstract—This project allows the user of the shoe to Our feet can show a lot of things about our body. But
regularly check their health using smartphones. The shoe is normal shoes could not read anything about our physical
equipped with a microcontroller that is connected to the heart body nor detect any of disease also people usually don’t
pulse sensor and a temperature sensor. The usage of this have time in their days to go and make an appointment in
project is to check the user's heart rate and body temperature
at anytime and anywhere by using the BLYNK application on
any clinic to do checkup of their health. People nowadays
the user's smartphone. Additionally, the project features a rarely do their check up because they believe that they are in
GPS tracker that guardians or caregivers can use to track the good health enough to run their routine life, until they are
user's progress. The purpose of this project is to make it easier struck with some health problem. And during covid, doctors
for users to conduct their own health screening daily without are hardly busy with covid patients. So, people who wanted
having to go to a hospital or clinic because most problems are to do health screening have to wait for a long time because
usually far away and cost a lot of money. Malaysia currently the doctor are hardly available. So, with these opportunity,
has 3.6 million diabetics, which is 17.5% of the population. By smart shoe with help screening can provide to all the users
2025, one in three people over the age of 18 will have diabetes,
and save their time without needing to make an
resulting in 31.3% of adults having diabetes. It is horrifying for
patients who suffer from diabetes and most people try to avoid appointment, also it could help prevent from getting a
them, however, without proper equipment to prevent it, the disease while monitoring our health in future. Further, the
damage can be done to the arteries, resulting in high blood smart shoe integrated with the Internet of Things in health
pressure, heart attacks, and kidney failures if left untreated. It sector has made positive significant impact on our daily
is predicted that chronic diseases will become a major lives [22-26].
economic and mental burden in the future for most families.
Although this project is only a prototype, it aims to meet the II. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
needs of users. An Arduino mini pro is connected to it, as well
Research is achieved a good way to ease the finalization
as a heartbeat sensor, a temperature sensor and a GPS tracker.
Through mobile apps called Blynk apps, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi of the system layout for each hardware and software
services will be connected. The user will be able to see all the program improvement for Smart shoe Health Screening the
parameters on the screen whenever they put on the shoe. It is usage of Arduino. The software program improvement
advantageous for the user to be able to monitor their health makes a specialty of the coding primarily based totally on
early with this technology. Arduino Compiler and simulation primarily based totally on
Proteus a good way to satisfy the goal of the challenge. The
Keywords— Smarty Shoe, BLYNK Apps, health Screening, circuit layout is built through the Proteus a good way to
IoT acquire a simulation before-hand of imposing the
mechanism creation whilst Arduino Compiler permit the
I. INTRODUCTION right coding required for the challenge to be write at the
A generation ago, people used to see their doctor only Arduino.
when they were sick or dying. Today, preventative health The flowchart and block diagram of the Smart Shoe
care is becoming commonplace as people become more system are shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, respectively.
educated and empowered about their own health. People are Figure 3 display the circuit diagram of the system.
preemptively seeking medical advice on how to live a
healthy lifestyle. They are looking to lower their risk of
various conditions or diseases by maintaining a healthy diet,
weight, and level of physical activity. Doctors are also
requested that we get regular check-ups to help stay on top
of their health. But some of are always too busy to get a
checkup so with the smart shoe, we could save our time by
only checking our health through our smart phones. With
the smart shoe we could find problems early on when they
may be easier to treat rather than to wait by making an
appointment to check our health. This smart shoe could be
pair with smart phone by using Bluetooth to reach the
information through a mobile app to know our health
condition.
From the mobile apps, we could detect our health
conditions such our blood flow by detecting the pulse, our
movement, and our physical health. This shoe could help us
prevent ourselves from getting a disease and get a long-term
healthy lifestyle. The smart shoe could help treat ourselves
while monitoring our health [1].
The smart shoe uses a low power consumption so it could
we use in a long term while using it. It contained with a
wireless transmission so it could relate to our mobile phones
from the mobile app. The smart shoes also will be attached
with sensors to detect our health condition from the shoe so
that the information could be detect from out feet [2].
 Figure 3 : Circuit diagram

A. Bluetooth Unit
The Bluetooth unit used is HC-06, It is a serial port protocol
module this help the prototype to connect with the mobile
Bluetooth so that the user will get intimation about the
obstacles.

B. Pulse heart rate sensor

The optical heart rate sensor measures pulse waves, which
are changes in the volume of a blood vessel that occur when
the heart pumps blood. Pulse waves are detected by
measuring the change in volume using an optical sensor and
green LED. This sensor will be place in between the ankle
where the heart pulse is located.

C. GPS Tracker
The GPS tracker that is used are Gyneo6mv2 flight control
GPS module. It can operate from 3.3V to 5V system, so all
those 5V Arduino boards. It detects the location of the user
when blynk is connected to the same network such as
hotspot. It connected through the blynk app and
automatically will display our location to our mobile apps.

D. Temperature Sensor
Figure 1: Flowchart The model use is the LM35. It is used to measure the heat of
a body from the sole of the feet. LM35 is a precession
Integrated circuit Temperature sensor, whose output voltage
varies, based on the temperature around it. It is a small and
cheap IC which can be used to measure temperature
anywhere between -55°C to 150°C. Even it is still unable to
detect the precise temperature, but it shows that the result
can be found and needed more improvement.

E. Arduino Mini Pro

The Arduino Pro Mini is a microcontroller board based on
the ATmega328. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of
which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, an
on-board resonator, a reset button, and holes for mounting
pin headers. A six-pin header can be connected to an FTDI
cable or Spark fun breakout board to provide USB power
Figure 2 : Block diagram
and communication to the board.
 park. Next, the user has the benefit of monitoring the system
via the blynk app on their phone, which allows them to
F. LCD Mobile Screen
monitor their heartbeat and temperature.
The LCD mobile screen will be connected through the blynk
app. To make the app function and to display the output of In addition, making this system for monitoring always
the result. The project must be connected to the same been difficult which is try and error because of the hardware
wireless network or the same network with the users mobile. that have been chosen mostly need to use ARDUINO IDE
That way the screen will display the result of the prototype software to coding, if the coding was not correct for the
from the smart shoe. system it would not easily function, so by the help from an
expert the simulation of the coding can be used in a quick
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
period of time. Finally, the prototype developed is a
The functionality has been tested using the prototype.  As preliminary version that is still being improved to meet the
a result, the prototype during the testing process ran requirements and achieve the goals SDG 3: cover and focus
smoothly. App called BLYNK display all the functions and on various aspects of healthy life and healthy lifestyle.
applications as expected. As shown in Figure 4, the body
temperature will be measured in celsius (℃) and the heart ACKNOWLEDGMENT
rate will be measured in beats per minute (BPM) and GPS is
The authors are grateful to the Management and Science
also working properly and showing the present of the user. In
the prototype, the battery type (LiPo) and power used University for their support.
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