MedBed: Smart medical bed
Abdallah Kassem, Mustapha Hamad, Chady El Moucary, Elias Nawfal, Alain Aoun · 2017
In large hospitals, nurses' intervention within certain timeframes can be a decisive factor in patients' recovery and might lead to serious and irreversible repercussions if not adequate. In this paper, a smart digital medical bed called MedBed is devised to solve the most challenging and relevant problems in an efficient manner from time, space and economical perspectives. The ultimate objective is to provide patients a certain independency thus, allowing them to take some vital actions when nurses are late or unavailable. The various features that the system offers are relevant and range from regular/plain to highly decisive in terms of impact on the patient's vital status. The bed recognizes voice commands from the patient and is perceived to communicate as Internet of Think (IoT) via a customized and user-friendly smartphone application. A database is provided to keep track of various related activities such as medication and other crucial reminders, as well. Finally, the utmost feature of this model is that it can be implemented in medical and healthcare centers with minimal infrastructure requirements or modifications.