Designing Flex Sensor Gloves with Temperature Sensor & Pulse Sensor to Help Stroke Patients

Abstract

Stroke patients often have trouble in daily interactions, when the patient communicated with people who are guarding them. If the distance between the patient and their guard is far, this will make it difficult for the stroke patient to communicate. Therefore, this research designed a prototype glove with a flex sensor installed as a communication tool to aid stroke patients. The designed glove is paired with five flexible sensors to enable nurses easily to read the five-finger movement signals. This tool is also equipped with DS18B20 temperature and pulse sensors capable of monitoring the physical condition of stroke patients in real-time. Testing the flex sensor glove prototype was carried out by measuring temperature & heart rate through pulse and temperature sensors. The output data is in the form of text and sound displayed on the LCD and heard through the speaker through the DFPlayer mini module. The body temperature was measured using the DS18B20 temperature sensor and compared with an Avico digital thermometer which has an average error of 0.1%, indicating adequacy. The heart rate test results through the pulse sensor were compared with measurements obtained using measure heart rate correctly. Instant heart rate, which has an average error of 0.7%, hence, it can