B.P.B Blood Pressure Bracelet

Studies show that one in three adults suffer from one or more types of Cardiovascular Diseases in America (Mozaffarian D, 2016).

CVD among senior citizens is raising and as they are not receiving help immediately they are unfortunately facing more heart failures. Most of our grandparents are now living alone and are away from their children and grandchildren, also the majority of them are suffering from (CVD) also known as, heart disease. We were a group of university students who wanted to solve a problem that our families were facing regarding their grandparents. As of this, we came up with a technological solution that will send them the right help as fast as possible. Blood Pressure Bracelet (B.P.B) is a bracelet that reads the user’s heart rate every 60 seconds. B.P.B helps patients with CVD to keep track of their heart rate. With the help of sensors and shields the bracelet is able to read the patient’s heart rate every 60 seconds. B.P.B has been programmed with thresholds; upper limit and lower limit. If the heart rate exceeds or goes below the threshold, then the bracelet takes two actions. First with a use of buzzer it makes a buzzing sound, warning the patients surroundings. Second, it calls the nearest hospital to the patient. This increases the chance of survival as the right help will be sent to the patient’s in the fastest way possible. B.P.B is built using Arduino.

Arduino is an Italian, Robotics company that provides hardware and software for building simple to complex robotic projects. The software is free and it uses C language to program the hardware. It offers a variety of sensors and shields that are easily compatible with each other. It also has a range of different sized and shaped boards all serving different purposes. This project has been successful in many competitions.

It was initiated by Ata Salar who build the idea of the project in an online incubator presented by Five One Lab. Later on during the second Hackasuly, Miss Salar join a group of four other classmates Lavin Luqman (Me), Rawand Ali, Zheer Qadir and Hayas Ismail. We came second place in Hackasuly.

In the same year we were contacted by GIZ Organization to participate in one of their entrepreneur ship programs. At the end of the program we came third place in Iraq. The project is now in prototype stage. We developed this project to provide fast healthcare for our loved ones. We thought of our own families and built a device that is suitable for our own grandparents. None of us as the developers of the project are medical experts, but we were motivated to build a device that was both technically and medically accurate.