Smart Saline Assistance System

The traditional Intravenous (IV) system is vulnerable to human error and other risks like backflow of blood, air embolism and various other problems if unattended at a time. This research aims to develop a smart IoT based monitoring and controlling system to administer the saline infusion effectively. The system consists of two systems, namely the patient bedside system and nurse side system. At patient side, flow rate is measured by the IR sensor placed parallelly across the drip chamber, and the volume of saline bottle is calculated using load cell to know when the bottle empties. An actuator mechanism is designed to set the desired flow rate. All critical parameters and alerts are given to the nurse side system with the help of a real time web server page and a portable handheld device enabling online as well as offline communication.