Autonomous Medical Robot for Home Based Monitoring

Abstract

An aging population is defined those aged above 65 years old. In 2020, it was estimated that the share of Malaysian population 65 years and above stood at seven percent. According to statement on July 2019 by Chief Statistician of Malaysia, 15 percent threshold made would be crossed in 2030. Recent estimates suggest that 8.5% of Malaysians over the age 60 having dementia, suffering from dementia and approximately yields population of 260,345 elderly with dementia. Many people with dementia have a prolonged disease trajectory, lasting years from diagnosis to death. Besides having trouble in remembering their personal details, they are also having problem on their medication management. The first problem to be addressed is the error of the caretaker giving medicine to patient. Medication errors are one of the most common health-related mistakes that have a negative effect on patients. Majority of the elderly are unable to manage themselves. More families are finding themselves unable to look after the elderly who are unable to manage themselves. Heart diseases remained the cause of death. The current heart rate monitor needs caretaker to visit every patient’s bed to make sure the heartbeat rate is normal. The results obtained from this medical robot shown on the Blynk applications. The testing was being run repeatedly to ensure that the results obtained were parallel with each other even after a bunch number of testing occur. For the results and discussion on the system of detecting spo2 and bpm, various tests has been taken in order to make comparison between each readings so that the results can be analyzed to ensure the validity of the system. The project goals has been successfully achieved. As for the future recommendation, the advance technology has already existed, but it still in need of deeper research and studies for each system that involved in this project because simplification needs change in term of component used which the new component must be able to produce the same or better result than the older one. This will lead to a small product but still maintaining the quality of the results produced.