IoT Based Electrolyte level Monitoring System

Abstract

In hospitals, Electrolyte is fed to patients in many ways. One of the important functions is in the form of saline to treat dehydration and thus improve their health. In current health care measures, whenever a saline is fed to any patient, the patient needs to be continuously monitored by a nurse or any caretaker. Monitoring the Saline level in a bottle attached to a patients’ body is one of the most important tasks for a Nurse/caretaker. In cases involving ignorance or carelessness, the bottle may get empty and blood can start flowing reverse into the bottle from patients’ body. This is a risky situation and needs a better solution. We are developing an IoT based bottle level monitoring system that will detect the saline bottle level at all instances and will send an alert to the hospital's control room in case the bottle reaches it's critical level(30% of initial level) and if there is no response and the level goes beyond 20% on initial level, we stop the flow. We are using ESP8266 Wi-Fi module for processing and communication and load sensor for detecting the bottle weight. The proposed system is not electrolyte specific and can monitor any fluid. A Dc Motor controlled- screw actuated clamp mechanism is used for stopping the flow.