Flex sensor controlled assist device for COVID-19 patients.

All over the world new and fast spreading disease have been affecting human health. This led to degradation of the living being's health immunity, support system, mental and physical stability. So the need of assistance requirement for all bed ridden patients is an increasing demand on daily basis. In our present situation the COVID-19 virus's crisis have caused a drastic change to the world. An enormous number of fields such as destruction of employment, economic losses, pandemic growth, food supplies and etc. have been affected. In this paper, an initiative step towards the replacement of man power supply to take care of COVID-19 patients have been proposed. A flex sensor glove wore by a patient would be able to communicate commands to the nurse or a care taker. The system consists of a 2.2 and 4.5 inches' flex sensors fixed over the right hand of the patient, connected with a microcontroller and wireless transmission unit. A corresponding receiver unit would be placed in the nurse station or to the care taker. The movement of patient's hand is associated to different commands. This reduces the need of the nurse to accompany a patient for 24 hours, in this crisis situation and also supports them with an electronic assistance. This flex controlled assist device have been designed and tested with an accuracy of 82.85%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]