MonSys- Monitoring System for Biomedical Refrigeration Equipments

Overview: A biomedical refrigeration equipment may store up to thousands of euros in products, surpassing the amount spent on the equipment itself. The constant monitoring of the temperature of such equipments is a viable investment when compared to the possible loss due to a malfunction. There are systems in the market that tackle this problem, however, the pricing of these devices isn't fit for scaling. That means that they may be appropriate for small clinics and laboratories but, in a town hospital there might be dozens of refrigeration equipments and the scalability would lead to an unfeasible investment.

Goals: Design, development and testing of a low cost monitoring system able to control biomedical refrigeration equipments and supporting wireless communication.

Description: It is proposed the development of a monitoring device capable of retrieving, processing and sending crucial data, via wireless, to a central with the specific information collected from the equipment. This central gets the information of multiple sensors and communicates with peripheral hardware that notifies a set of users when conditions variations are verified. The development of dedicated software is needed in order to provide an interface for the data visualization and reconfiguration of monitoring devices. The proposed system has to be constructed in simplified manner, providing an affordable solution to a low end user. In this smaller version, the central and software are not part of the system, only the monitoring devices and the hardware related to the alert notifications sent to the users.

Supervision: Carlos Almeida and Rui Rocha