A New Monitoring System of Portable Microcomputer Injection Pumps Based on Z-Wave

Abstract

This paper put forward a new idea to built a wireless sensor network upon existing portable microcomputer injection pumps used in the medical by embedding Z-wave communication modules to form a monitoring system, which can collect data from each pump in the network by the Z-stick connected to the host computer and achieve the functions of data record, query, alarm by analyzing and processing the data with the software of host computer. This paper discusded the character of Z-wave and its feature of protocol, designed the hardware and software of the pump nodes and the software on host computer. The paper showed that the monitoring system can commonly used to hospital medical treatment to realize the centralized management of the existing scattered injection pumps and provide a intelligence, convenient environment to the hospitals.