Designing IoT-Based Independent Pulse Oximetry Kit as an Early Detection Tool for Covid-19 Symptoms

The increasing positive confirmed patients Covid-19 in Indonesia especially in Banyuwangi showed how serious the outbreak of this virus. Based on data obtained from news, mass media, and surveys in health facilities (Faskes) in Banyuwangi, most hospitals appointed to treat patients with symptoms Covid-19 have not been able to provide adequate rapid test equipment for early detection independently to the patient. Similarly, a person who is conducting quarantine from the Covid-19 is either quarantined in the hospital as a patient in supervision, a positive patient, or a self-imposed quarantine in the home as a supervising person who, because it has just traveled from the red zone area Covid-19 requires an infectious risk assessment Not all people infected with Covid-19 show their symptoms within a few days, can also be felt after 10-14 days or even more, or even show no symptoms at all. However, a person who does not experience the symptoms of Covid-19 is at risk of being a carrier that can transmit to another person. The symptoms for a person who is indicative of Covid-19 one of them is shortness of breath, abnormal heartbeat, and abnormalities in lung function similar to the symptoms of pneumonia. Indications of the symptoms shown indicate that the soluble O2 levels in the blood in the person’s body are abnormal. The O2 level in the normal blood vessel is 75-100 mmHg, which means if the O2 level is below normal indicating a person needs additional O2, and if it exceeds it will damage the cells of the lungs. In the case of Covid-19, a person will exhibit symptoms similar to health disorders especially similar to asthma and pneumonia. So, in this study, the main focus was on the development of tools used to measure the level of dissolved O2 in the blood carried out with the help of the medical personnel and carried out independently. The implementation of the Pulse Oximetry Kit has been developed and used extensively in the health world. However, the latest Pulse Oximetry Kit does not yet have a system that can be monitored in real time and record the measurement results according to the needs of management of Covid-19 patients. Therefore, this research will be focused on the development of pulse oximetry kits by utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) technology as tools that can be used to perform remote monitoring of covid-19 patients through smartphones with regard to physical and social distancing protocols. The design and development of portable pulse oximetry kit products that are equipped with GPS and its integration with IoT technology that is mass production is the main focus on this research