WIRELESS Temperature Monitoring System for Blood Bank using Zigbee

Abstract

A wireless temperature monitoring system has been designed and fabricated for the monitoring of blood bank temperature. The protection of blood is done by labeling of blood components and stored at refrigerator temperature of 4°C. Therefore, it is important to monitor the temperature of blood bank to ensure the blood is stored properly to avoid the shortage of blood supply. This study involve both hardware and software implementation. A circuitry is produced and is placed at the blood bank which involves thermistor, ZigBee as transmitter and a buzzer as alarm. The temperature data is transmitted for every one second to the base station. As for the monitoring system, it will display the temperature data as well as time that received by another ZigBee at the base station. By using LabVIEW, the monitoring system was published to the internet by creating a website which can reduce the work load without involvement of labour. The integration of both software and hardware is done, where activation of the alarm and indicators for both circuit and monitoring system happen simultaneously based on the temperature condition of the blood bank.