IoT-based portable ventilator designed by
Tezpur University students
News Desk, 14 May, 2021: Students of Tezpur University
in Assam have designed an IoT-based portable ventilator, which will help
patients with respiratory ailments breathe easily and overcome the
problem of shortage of the life-saving instrument, amid a second wave of
COVID-19, an official said on Thursday. A set of students is working on
the project under the leadership of Chiranjit Adhikary, former guest
faculty member, and Firdausa Ahmed, guest faculty member, and the
project is controlled by Professor Soumik Roy, the head of the
department. “The purpose of the project is to design a portable
mechanical ventilator by automating the operation of ‘Ambu Bag’ with
volume control ventilation which can be used in respiratory failure,”
Roy clarified. The model of the ventilator is cost-effective, and by
using IoT as a remote regulatory feature, one can control and monitor
the ventilator parameters through mobile phones and computers, he said,
adding that it will prevent both the clinicians and the doctors from
getting infected through airborne transmission. The portable ventilator
is a economical tool and would be available between Rs 8,000 and Rs
15,000, depending on the features, the statement said. The inventiveness
was part of a project, awarded as the ‘Best Innovative Engineering
Idea’ under the banner of professor Aparna Kumar Padmapati Annual
Scholarship from Assam Engineering College Class 88 Foundation for the
2020-21 year. It is an initiative of alumni of Assam Engineering
College, who passed out in 1988, popularly known as AEC Class 88
Foundation.
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