Chengdu Bogao uses LoRa to empower smart medical and big health golden track

“Looking back at the beginning of 2020, a sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic swept across China and even the world. In the face of the urgent situation, the medical industry in various places is charging ahead to build a solid line of defense to protect people’s lives and health. At the same time, this fierce “big exam” also tested the comprehensive capabilities of the national medical industry in epidemic prevention and treatment, and put forward new requirements for the intelligentization and digitization of the medical industry, which promoted the accelerated development of smart medical care.

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LoRa IoT technology provides comprehensive solutions from intelligent infusion management to intelligent management of medical equipment and places

Looking back at the beginning of 2020, a sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic swept across China and even the world. In the face of the urgent situation, the medical industry in various places is charging ahead to build a solid line of defense to protect people’s lives and health. At the same time, this fierce “big exam” also tested the comprehensive capabilities of the national medical industry in epidemic prevention and treatment, and put forward new requirements for the intelligentization and digitization of the medical industry, which promoted the accelerated development of smart medical care.

As the proportion of the elderly population in my country continues to rise, the medical and health protection industries are required to further improve their efficiency in order to meet the current growing demand for medical and health security services. Using smart medical care based on IoT technologies such as LoRa®, combining new sensors and control technologies with modern medical care methods, optimizes the allocation of medical resources, thereby providing more timely and effective treatment for patients, and also for the health of medical staff. Safety builds a barrier and eases its workload.

Driven by the continuous improvement of public health awareness and the continuous improvement of preventive measures, and driven by social trends such as population aging, smart medical care has become a golden track in my country’s information technology field. It is estimated that the size of my country’s smart medical market in 2020 It will break through the 100 billion yuan mark and will continue to grow at an annual growth rate of over 20%.

Figure 1: Investment Scale of Smart Healthcare in China from 2016 to 2020

As a leading provider of IoT overall solutions in China, Chengdu Bogao Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Chengdu Bogao”) has been committed to researching IoT network communication technology, constantly building open platforms, and promoting overall solutions. The solution has been successfully applied in many fields such as smart city, smart property, smart medical care, and smart energy.

Chengdu Bogao’s smart medical solution has been widely used. This solution uses the “self-organization, security and controllability” characteristics of Semtech LoRa IoT technology to develop a batch of IoT devices suitable for various medical scenarios. The application system can not only help epidemic prevention and control, but also realize the overall intelligent solution of smart healthcare from the management of medical equipment to the comprehensive management of medical and health care facilities with IoT technology. This article will introduce the smart infusion management and smart medical equipment management solutions.

Figure 2 Physical map of intelligent infusion terminal

In the intelligent infusion management solution, the intelligent infusion terminal combines sensors and LoRa technology to collect the data of the infusion process without wiring and ward transformation, and then report the data to the large screen of the nurse’s desk monitoring main station through the LoRa gateway. In this way, no matter where the medical staff is in any area of ​​the ward, they can obtain the patient’s infusion status and information in real time through the large screen, and realize the visualization and intelligent management of the infusion process.

Figure 3 Real-time monitoring of infusion status

The medical staff can also view the current remaining fluid volume and dripping speed in real time through the background, and set the dripping speed and remaining fluid volume alarm values. Know the situation at the first time and deal with it in time; when patients encounter any problems, they can also notify the medical staff through the call system to realize the interconnection between doctors and patients.

Through the automatic collection of infusion equipment and patient data, abnormal information will be alarmed in time, and the entire infusion process will be included in remote intelligent monitoring, which can reduce the frequency of medical staff’s bed inspection, thereby improving the efficiency of nursing work and reducing the risk of medical accidents. Especially during the epidemic prevention and control period, it can also effectively reduce the chance of medical staff being infected.

Figure 4: Viewing and setting of remaining liquid volume and drip rate

In the daily management of medical and health care institutions, it is very important to improve the work efficiency of medical staff, and it is also essential to improve the efficiency of medical equipment. As we all know, there are many types and quantities of equipment in hospitals. Often due to inadequate management, equipment that is not in use is left unpowered for a long time, or equipment that has been idle for a long time cannot be used, resulting in waste of energy consumption or resources. .

Chengdu Bogao launched a smart medical equipment and instrument management solution based on the energy consumption analysis of the Internet of Things. By using smart sockets on electrical equipment, data parameters such as current, voltage, electricity, power, and load temperature are collected. LoRa wireless The communication technology periodically reports data to the master server, and actively reports abnormal conditions. Users can monitor the power consumption environment and status of the instrument in real time through the application software developed by Chengdu Bogao, and can also analyze the energy consumption data to realize the timely and effective management of the power consumption equipment.

By monitoring the use of medical equipment in real time, it can not only improve the utilization rate of equipment, but also help to efficiently coordinate medical equipment in different departments, optimize resource allocation, and effectively promote energy conservation and emission reduction, and reduce energy consumption costs. In addition, when the voltage exceeds the limit, the current exceeds the limit, the temperature is abnormal, etc., it will be reported in time, and the equipment management personnel will find the problem at the first time and deal with it quickly, thereby reducing the risk of medical accidents and improving the safety of equipment use. , improve patient experience and satisfaction.

Figure 5 Physical map of smart socket

Zhang Baoping, chief engineer of Chengdu Bogao Information Technology Co., Ltd., said: “By cooperating with a world-leading partner like Semtech, we can quickly launch LoRa-based solutions for different scenarios. The characteristics of long distance, wide coverage, easy construction and deployment, and strong system scalability make our smart medical products and solutions stand out in practical applications, and have been successfully implemented and comprehensively promoted in many hospitals in eastern provinces. The investment in products and the deployment of the smart medical ecosystem can effectively reduce the risk of medical malpractice by more than 90%, increase the utilization rate of medical equipment by 18%, and reduce the comprehensive energy consumption by about 15%.”

With the development of a new generation of information technologies such as the Internet of Things + big data, and the strong support of policies such as the “Notice on Printing and Distributing the Action Outline for Promoting the Development of Big Data” issued by the State Council, with the help of the huge intelligent and digital market of medical care and big health As a driving force, Chengdu Bogao has also continued to launch a variety of intelligent products, such as the Bluetooth relay gateway based on LoRa technology, which can realize the integration and sharing of fragmented medical data; another example is the indoor navigation system that can provide patients with optimal routes. Choose, reduce unnecessary waiting time, improve the efficiency and experience of medical treatment; the indoor positioning system can locate personnel and assets to achieve better management.

Figure 6 The policy of “big data + medical care” to make smart medical care benefit the people will promote the development of the industry

Zhang Baoping, Chief Engineer of Chengdu Bogao, added: “Many of Chengdu Bogao’s products can be used not only in the medical industry, but also in other industries. Such as positioning equipment has been widely used in industries such as smart industry, smart campus, and smart health care. ; The energy consumption monitoring and management solution can collect water, electricity, gas, and heat energy consumption data, and realize remote data reading. Now with the development of the times, all walks of life have higher and higher requirements for digitalization and intelligence. The new IoT communication technology represented by LoRa eliminates the problems of complicated wiring, high energy consumption, and data fragmentation, and provides more intelligent options for the market and customers.”

Semtech’s “self-organizing, secure, controllable” LoRa device is a widely adopted long-range, low-power IoT solution that provides a complete set of telecommunications companies, IoT application developers and system integrators The capabilities they need to help them deploy low-cost and interconnected IoT networks, gateways, sensors, modular products and IoT services globally. IoT networks based on the LoRaWAN specification have been successfully deployed in more than 100 countries and regions.

Huang Xudong, Vice President of Sales at Semtech China, said: “Chengdu Bogao, as a full member of the LoRa Alliance, has long been focusing on the research and development of IoT technology and LoRa applications. Semtech is very pleased to see Bogao launch a variety of LoRa-based products and solutions. The solution provides a lot of convenience for the medical industry, and can also serve the people’s livelihood and support the transformation and upgrading of China’s economy. As a mature IoT technology, LoRa, with its wide coverage, low power consumption, and easy deployment, can be used for many Smart solutions for the industry provide reliable connectivity.”