Gesture Based Automated Multifunction Bed (GAM-B)

Abstract

In the field of health it is most important that patient is being cared and his comfort level is taken care of. Science and technology over the time has revolutionized the field of medicine with the passage of time. Hospital bed is used by every patient and has a caretaker all the time to be taken care of. The purpose of this project is to evolve the concept of hospital beds. As the beds already existing in hospitals have manual cranks or electrical wired remotes to operate. This concept was revolutionized by introducing image processing based technology to read the hand gestures and then through microcontroller command was sent to operate the bed. We aim to replace this image processing based technology with sensor based in hospital beds. This project aims to provide a hospital bed which has two primary motions of Up and Down for patient to sit and lay back and two additional movements of left and right to assist the patient to change his sides independently. Moreover we have given appliances controls inside patient room to patient to control their switching independently while lying down on the bed. After wearing a hand glove a patient will be able to control four motions of his bed and will have controls of fan and light in his room. Purpose of this project is to increase comfort level of patient and give him independence to control bed and appliance on specific hand gestures. This will eliminate the need of caretaker for every patient and a large number of manpower will become free and will contribute in our nation building. Hospitals will no longer be overcrowded and patients will have a scientific alternate to existing setup. For future we aim to provide multiple solutions especially the height adjustment of the bed.