Projeto de uma central de monitoramento IoT para o STDAH do Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

Dialysis is an indispensable treatment for patients who, for whatever reasons, have suffered loss of most of their kidney function and have not received a kidney transplant. Hemodialysis is the most common form of dialysis and is currently performed by more than 130 thousand Brazilians and requires ultrapure water for its execution. The HC-UFU, as the large-sized and high-complexity hospital that it is, has its own water treatment system for hemodialysis, which, like every electric and hydraulic system, is susceptible to failures, either due to natural wear and tear, misuse, or other reasons. And, when they occur, they result in a large cost of public money with maintenance, rescheduling of patients or reallocation to private clinics, etc. For these reasons, this paper proposes the combination of IoT technology with web development to create a continuous and remote monitoring hub to alert any non-compliance that hinders or prevents the cleaning and purification of the water used in the hemodialysis processes of the hospital's Nephrology Sector, providing the possibility of performing predictive maintenance, which would save costs with corrective maintenance of the system and would enable a higher quality of treatment for hemodialysis patients.