Wireless sensor network-enabled intravenous infusion monitoring

Considering that intravenous in blood infusion, usually applied without a proper control of the progress and velocity under unreliable manual monitoring practice, is the most popular and frequent clinical activity throughout the world, which can potentially endanger a patient´s life, leads to a huge burden as patients, relatives and nursing staff can cause serious cases of medical negligence. In order to resolve this problem and provide a networkable solution the authors propose a novel radio frequency identification-based wireless sensor networkable intravenous infusion monitoring system. The proposed system is a wireless sensor system based on taking a fork-type light barrier as a sensor, a micro-control unit (MCU) as a ZigBee-based radio frequency device. The system´s performance is evaluated through some laboratory experiments using tuning algorithm to demonstrate that the results show the required accuracy of the system to meet practical needs.