Low-Cost Digitization of Infusion Pump for Real-time Automated Flow Rate Monitoring and Warning

In the last few decades, the population of the world has been increasing exponentially. This is, in turn, increases the need for health care experts. But the ratio of the number of health care experts to the number of people needing expertise is unsatisfactory, especially in developing countries. For this reason, we need to use health monitoring devices. The innovative health monitoring systems are required with a less human intervention which will be available at low cost in rural as well as urban areas. This paper describes an idea to provide a cost-effective, reliable and automatic saline flow monitoring system that can be easily implemented in any hospital. The proposed system device consists of Arduino Uno, IR sensor, ESP8266, keypad, LCD. By using this device, the doctor or nurse can easily monitor the saline level, drop rate, containing the existing solution in the IV bag. The nurse automatically gets notified on their computer or mobile and also gets LED status from the device itself. Finally, the proposed device can be reused.