  The location and human activity are usually used as one of the important
parameters to monitor the health status in healthcare devices. However, nearly
all existing location and monitoring systems have the limitation of short-range
communication and high power consumption. In this paper, we propose a new
mechanism to collect and transmit monitoring information based on LoRa
technology. The monitoring device with sensors can collect the real-time
activity and location information and transmit them to the cloud server through
LoRa gateway. The user can check all his history and current information
through the specific designed mobile applications. Experiment was carried out
to verify the communication, power consumption and monitoring performance of
the entire system. Experimental results demonstrate that this system can
collect monitoring and activity information accurately and provide the long
rang coverage with low power consumption.
