Toward a Novel Design for Mechanical Ventilator System to Support Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Infected Patients Using IoT Based Technology

Mohammed, M. N.; Syamsudin, H.; Abdelgnei, M. A. H.; Subramaniam, D.; Taib, M. A. A. M.; Hashim, N.; Al-Zubaidi, S.; Yusuf, E.

Recent pandemic of Covid-19 has diffused and become concern to the world. The disease is contagious and infected many people within short time. The Covid-19 has infected more than 100 million of reported cases according to the WHO with more than 2 million deaths. Many symptoms found in infectee of Covid-19 such as fever, dry cough, etc. One of the symptoms, shortness of breath, is found in 18.6% of infectee. Part of people infected by COVID-19 suffered from acute difficulty in breathing which need a help from ventilator for breathing. The ventilator plays important role in saving the Covid-19 patients. Ventilator can aid the patient to breath easily and supporting the lungs by letting in the sufficient air while encountering the hard breathing. In developed area, the ventilator is limited while the demand during pandemic gets increased. This paper proposes a low-cost prototype of ventilator for Covid-19 patient which integrated with IoT. The technology supports the clinicians to monitor the patient condition by letting the ventilator and the phone or tablet to be connected and exchange information. © 2021 IEEE.