Education
Smart health initiative by IIT, Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, has designed a wireless technology for remote monitoring of patients' condition being transported in ambulances. The technology named 'AmbuSens' has been developed in the SWAN lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of the IIT. The various physiological parameters like ECG, heart-rate, temperature and blood-pressure can be wirelessly monitored via Ambusens and uses analytic and computing power of cloud computing. It serves as an easy-to-use graphical interface for doctors and paramedics with data visualisation tools such as real-time ECG graph rendering, accessible from Internet-enabled smart devices. Sudip Misra, the principal investigator of the project opines, “This technology will be a boon for the referral patients who are transported from a hospital in remote area to a city hospital." It is also going to be life-saving for accident victims or cardiac patients. Successful field trials of the system have been conducted at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar and BC Roy technological hospital (BCRTH), IIT Kharagpur.
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