DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL TIME TRACKING AND HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM, FOR SOLDIERS ON THE BATTLE FIELD

Abstract

This research work is giving an ability to track the location and monitor health status of the soldiers in real time who become lost or get injured in the battlefield. This is done by using, GPS receiver to track the location of the soldiers through satellite, temperature sensor to sense the body temperature and heartbeat sensor to sense the heartbeat of the solders. The temperature sensor LM35’s output is directly interfaced with 10-bit ADC which is inbuilt in ATMEGA32 microcontroller. It senses the body temperature of soldier and give that sensed analog signal to ADC, which convert that signal to digital signal. All the sensed data from both heart beat sensor and GPS are sent to the Microcontroller. Then all these data from the microcontroller are sent to the army control room through ZigBee transceivers wirelessly and is displayed on the personal computer (PC), which indicates the location and health status of the soldiers that is the temperature and their heart beats.