Medical professionals are becoming interested in incubators. They are glass and metal containers that have been heated to specific humidity and are filled with enough air to support life. Until a baby is strong enough to handle the humidity in a room.
Controlling humidity is crucial in newborn incubators. As a result, we are adjusting the humidity to meet our needs. Microprocessors, microcontrollers, and electronic circuits can all be used to control humidity. Currently, the microcontroller is a sophisticated component used in many sensor projects. As a result, we are utilizing a microcontroller to control the humidity in a baby incubator.
Benefits of a Baby Incubator
The purpose of incubators is to offer a safe environment for infants to live in while their important organs grow. To survive and develop, a premature or ill newborn needs a controlled environment. The temperature, oxygen levels, light, sound, and humidity can all be adjusted to meet the needs of the infant under their care. Babies are shielded in incubators from pathogens, allergies, illnesses, and hazards associated with exposure to intense light and sound. They are also used to conduct a number of medical operations, including breathing, monitoring vital signs continuously, supplying blood and drugs, and treating jaundice with special lamps. Therefore, an incubator aids medical experts in treating and supervising the newborn in addition to providing a safe environment for the infant.
Block Diagram:
Description in detail:
Micro-controller board: It is a CMOS 8-bit low-power, high-performance microcontroller board with 4K bytes of EPROM (Flash Programmable and Erasable Read-Only Memory). The product is made with Atmel’s high-density nonvolatile memory technology and is MCS-51 compliant. Pin out and set the instructions. The program memory can be updated in-system or using a typical nonvolatile memory programmer thanks to the on-chip Flash. On a monolithic device, a flexible 8-bit CPU and Flash are combined to offer a highly adaptable and economical solution for various embedded control applications.
Humidity Sensor Block: A device that measures humidity. A linear relationship exists between the humidity and the output voltage of the humidity sensor.
ADC Block: ADC means analog to digital converter. The output of signal conditioning is in the analog form. But Microprocessor requires input in digital form for this purpose we have to use ADC.
Amplifier Block: Since the output signal from the microcontroller 89C51 is weak, it needs to be amplified. The signal is amplified by the amplifier block in order to drive the output device, the last control element. The transistor BC 547 is used for amplification.
Output Block: FAN and a soldering gun are the output devices used in this project. When humidity is above the set point, the fan is ON, which causes humidity to begin to decrease, and when humidity is below the set point, the soldering gun is ON, which causes humidity to begin to increase.
Display Block: For this project, we are utilizing a 16 x 2 intelligent LCD display to show the name of the college, the set humidity level, and the humidity of the baby incubator, which is very significant.
Applications and Advantages
- Hospitals may use this project.
- We use our project to warm infants. Warmth is provided to preterm and fragile newborns using it.
Future Development
- We can simultaneously monitor and regulate additional parameters, such as the oxygen level.
- We can use a mobile device or the Internet to deliver this data to a distant location.
- Using a computer, we can create graphs showing how these parameters vary.
Conclusion
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