Implementation of Nursing Assistant Robot

Abstract

Cyber physical systems are need of modern era to cater the need of humanity in a better way. Unpredicted pandemic situation demands the deployment of cyber physical systems in the healthcare industry to prevent the spread of infectious disease in the medical staff while serving the infectious patients. CORONA has exhibited a need for autonomous assistance to carry out nursing tasks. For nursing staff, it is almost impossible to maintain the norms of social distancing as their job involves the personal care of the patients. Monitoring the patient's body temperature and oxygen level, Supply of food and drug at regular intervals are the main duties a nursing staff needs to perform for a corona-infected person. Such tasks can be performed using a cyber physical system, which enables the nursing staff to perform their duties while maintaining the social distancing norms. This paper discusses a cyber physical system that is remotely controlled and capable of gathering important health-related data of patients like body temperature and oxygen level. The system also enables audio and video communication between the nursing staff and a patient without employing over a Internet. A state-of-the-art Raspberry Pi board is used with an ESP32 camera module to set up the wireless audio and video link for communication. The system is implemented and tested in the controlled environment of the laboratory.