Design and Implementation of IoT-Based Automatic Oxygen Flow Control in Response to the Covid-19 Crisis

ABSTRACT

Internet of Things (IoT) technology has brought a revolution in several ways to a common person's life by making everything smart and intelligent. During the Covid-19 crisis, health workers around the world needed to monitor patients' health and needed to provide sufficient oxygen, when necessary, as Covid-19 was responsible for many respiratory cases. Health workers were at high risk of being contaminated while treating Covid-19 patients. The study of this paper is to propose an IoT-based automatic oxygen flow control in response to the Covid-19 crisis. The proposed approach helped to real-time monitoring of SpO2, heartbeat, oxygen quantity of oxygen cylinder, and control of the flow of oxygen based on SpO2 value. A health worker can monitor a patient's health-related parameters and control the flow of oxygen without any physical contact with it. Also, provides an alarm to the health worker when SpO2 is below the threshold and re-measuring oxygen quantity of oxygen cylinder with the help of our developed android app. Implementation of IoT-based low-cost pulse oximeter and IoT-based pressure gauge helps to monitor and control different health parameters. The IoT-based system may potentially be valuable during the Covid-19 pandemic for accurate oxygen flow distribution and for saving people's lives. © 2022 IEEE.