IoT Based Smart Electrolytic Bottle Monitoring

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 the healthiness. In contemporary health care procedures, whenever a saline is nursed to any persevering, the persevering is unceasingly observed by a nurse or any custodian. 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 by sending an alert to monitoring room of hospital when the bottle content reaches below threshold level. The proposed system is not electrolyte specific and can monitor any fluid. The system can be incorporated with existing bottle stands so it has an added advantage of flexibility and modularity. The app interface will be easy to operate and understand so that anyone with basic technical knowledge will be able to use it. As of now, it can operate for monitoring purposes and we have added automatic flow stop control to improve it further. In case of power failures, the system will still function as its battery powered but database updates will not be updated, so a physical alert solution like a beeper is also being planned will be incorporated.