Chandigarh University’s 4th year Mechatronics Engineering Branch has developed an IoT (Internet of Things) based patient assistance system that help the attendants to better understand the requirements of the patients. The five member group of Aman Gupta, Vivek Chauhan, Mayank Verma, Lalit Yadav and Ishan Nayak developed a gesture based sensor technology that can be attached to the patients’ hand to offer notifications to the attendants for certain necessities like paining, need for water or food or need to go bathroom and more.

Commenting on the system, one of the team, Vivek Chauhan, states, “One of the main task of the IoT Patient Assistant System is to keep monitoring all the factors that a patient may need to be taken care for like number of times a patient called for assistance and how many times no one attended them, storing the important statistics like heartbeat level, BP Level, blood sugar monitoring”.

The gesture based sensor technology system is pre-stored with four gestures along with IoT board, gesture sensors,

power circuits, wi-fi nodules, LCD screen speakers for emergency and the system can also be attached with voice systems Google Assistant and Amazon. The team is currently working on reducing the cost of the system (which is Rs.5000) by developing a server model where multiple devices can be attached. The system was developed in 4-5 months and the team has filed a patent for the system and will try to enhance the capability.

Lalit Yadav, one of the team members, comments, “Another feature of the system is that it comes integrated with an automatic water feeding system where water is slowly dripped into the patients mouth as soon it gets command from them”. Another member, Mayunk, says, “The idea came when we visited a hospital where I saw a paralytic patient who could not speak asking for water and there was no one to look after him”.

One of the main task of the IoT Patient Assistant System is to keep monitoring all the factors that a patient may need to be taken care for like number of times a patient called for assistance and how many times no one attended them

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