Patient Monitor for SpO2 and Temperature Parameters

Patient monitor is an apparatus used to monitor the patient\u27s condition in real-time, hence the patient\u27s physiological conditions can be identified at that time. The purpose of this study is to design a patient monitor for SpO2 and temperature parameters based on computer with Delphi progaming. In this work, the author developed  patient monitor with two parameters (SpO2 and Temperature). The workings of this tool are very simple by installing the finger sensor on the finger and the temperature sensor in the armpit area will then be detected by the two sensors that will be displayed on the PC and LCD Characters, analog data from the ADC Atmega is received by the personal computer (PC) via Bluetooth HC -05 and values ​​per parameter are also displayed on the Character LCD. After measuring, get an error in the tool, the biggest SpO2 error of this tool is 1.02% and get the smallest error of 0.8%. And for the biggest error of Temperature of 1.02% and the smallest error of 0.8%

Wearable Capacitive-based Wrist-worn Gesture Sensing System

Gesture control plays an increasingly significant role in modern human-machine interactions. This paper presents an innovative method of gesture recognition using flexible capacitive pressure sensor attached on user’s wrist towards computer vision and connecting senses on fingers. The method is based on the pressure variations around the wrist when the gesture changes. Flexible and ultrathin capacitive pressure sensors are deployed to capture the pressure variations. The embedding of sensors on a flexible substrate and obtain the relevant capacitance require a reliable approach based on a microcontroller to measure a small change of capacitive sensor. This paper is addressing these challenges, collect and process the measured capacitance values through a developed programming on LabVIEW to reconstruct the gesture on computer. Compared to the conventional approaches, the wrist-worn sensing method offerings a low-cost, lightweight and wearable prototype on the user’s body. The experimental result shows that the potentiality and benefits of this approach and confirms that accuracy and number of recognizable gestures can be improved by increasing number of sensor

Peak Flow Meter Equipped with Inspection Results Indicator

Peak Flow Meter (PFM) is a tool to measure the Peak Flow of Air Expiration in the road (PFR) or commonly referred to as Peak Expiration Flow (PEF) and to connect asthma. The value of PEF can help a number of factors in age, respiratory muscle strength, height and gender. Airway measurements are used to measure patients suffering from asthma. This peak flow meter tool works based on the air pressure produced from the patient\u27s puff using the MPX5100GP pressure sensor in the range of 0 to 100 kPa and the voltage output is 0.2 to 4.7 VDC to increase wind pressure in the patient. From the pressure converted to voltage and enter the 0 from the Arduino nano minimum system circuit to be processed into analog data and then put into units of liters / second, the value of the flow meter is sent and replaced to a PC with the Delphi7 application. The measurement results of PEF values at peak flow meters have an error value of less than 5% This peak flow meter tool also has a consideration value of 0.095475 so that this tool can be said to be very certain to be used as asthma. Then it can be concluded that the peak flow meter is feasible and meets the specified requirement

Smart Metering Using GSM

Recently, many engineers has discovered and attracted to Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) that said to be replacing the human operator meter reading in the future. AMR has many advantages over the traditional method which made it the preferred method in the residential distribution meter. Although AMR is not yet the dominant method, but with evolution of the technology and the subsequent research on various AMR medium this method with no doubt will be the common usage in the future. This paper discovered various advantages of this method and studied on one of the AMR medium that is using GSM (Global System Mobile) modem

A proposal for a development platform for microcontroller-based devices

This thesis is concerned with designing, implementing and testing a miniaturised temperature data logging device. Investigations demonstrated that a microcontroller could provide a low-cost single-chip solution to this problem and after a detailed review of 8-bit microcontrollers, the MC68HCll was chosen for this task. This document also includes discussion on an environment that was developed for creating and testing MC68HC11 software and the use of Motorola\u27s evaluation boards. To ensure that the device was designed to software engineering standards an investigation into software engineering analysis techniques took place. This resulted in the Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) methodology being adapted to produce a proposed development platform suitable for microcontroller-based design

A time-strain monitoring system fabricated via offset lithographic printing

This paper reports progress in the development of strain sensors fabricated using the Conductive Lithographic Film (CLF) printing process. Strain sensitive structures printed via an unmodified offset lithographic printing press using a silver loaded conductive ink have been deposited concurrently with circuit interconnect, to form an electronic smart packaging system. A system populated with SMT components has proven successful in interpreting and logging deformation incidences subjected to a package during testing. It is proposed that with further development such a system could be printed in sync with packaging graphics using a single printing process to form an integrated time – strain monitoring system

Design and Construction of a Programmable Electroporation system for Biological Applications

Studies into electroporation have grown rapidly in biotechnology and medicine in recent years. This paper presents the design and construction of a low cost programmable electroporation system for biological applications. The system consists of a control module, a pulse generation circuit and a high voltage switch using a power MOSFET. The programmable electroporation has been designed, developed and tested. Using a standard commercial electroporation cuvette, it is possible to generate electric fields of 100 to 1000V/cm with programmed pulse lengths of 10?sec to 20msec. The system was evaluated with Hela cells and propidium dye to evaluate transfection rates under a variety of electroporation conditions. Initial results showed that the electroporation system achieved a peak cell transfection efficiency of 48.74% at 600V/cm with pulse lengths of 10 ms

Efficiency of Photovoltaic Systems in Mountainous Areas

Photovoltaic (PV) systems have received much attention in recent years due to their ability of efficiently converting solar power into electricity, which offers important benefits to the environment. PV systems in regions with high solar irradiation can produce a higher output but the temperature affects their performance. This paper presents a study on the effect of cold climate at high altitude on the PV system output. We report a comparative case study, which presents measurement results at two distinct sites, one at a height of 612 meters and another one at a mountain site at a height of 1764 meters. This case study applies the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique in order to determine maximum power from the PV panel at different azimuth and altitude angles. We used an Arduino system to measure and display the attributes of the PV system. The measurement results indicate an increased efficiency of 42% for PV systems at higher altitude