# Smart Intravenous Infusion Dosing System
###### Abstract  
Interavencous (IV) infusion therapy allows the infusion fluid to be inserted directly into the patient's vein. It is used to place medications directly into the bloodstream or for blood transfusions. The probability that a hospitalized patient will receive some kind of infusion therapy, intravenously, is 60-80%. The paper presents a smart IV infusion dosing system for detection, signaling, and monitoring of liquid in an IV bottle at a remote location. It consists of (i) the sensing and computation layer--a system for detection and signaling of fluid levels in the IV bottle and a system for regulation and closing of infusion flow, (ii) the communication layer--a wireless exchange of information between the hardware part of the system and the client, and (iii) the user layer--monitoring and visualization of IV therapy reception at a remote location in real time. All layers are modular, allowing upgrades of the entire system. The proposed system alerts medical staff to continuous and timely changes of IV bottles, which can have positive effects on increasing the success of IV therapy, especially in oncology patients. The prescribed drip time of IV chemotherapy for the full effect of cytostatics should be imperative. smart IV infusion dosing system; IV therapy; IV bottle; IV chemotherapy; nurse response time; Internet of Things (IoT); wireless intravenous system; remote infusion monitoring system +
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cisplatin/etoposide/ifosfamide (PEI) protocols are used in treatment, respectively. Initial chemotherapy lasts four cycles--shorter/longer if necessary, with one cycle involving 5 days of active IV therapy with cytostatics, 5 IV bottles per day, which is a total of 25 IV bottles during only one cycle. As a result, each subsequent cycle becomes more difficult for patients, not only due to exhaustion but also because the veins are no longer able to withstand all-day chemotherapy. The veins become weak and porous over time and quickly become inflamed, which is why daily therapy, instead of a few hours, lasts significantly longer. A solution for these and other problems would greatly encourage patients and thus increase the success of IV chemotherapy, which is our goal. The process of administering IV chemotherapy involves the continuous and timely change of IV bottles which requires constant supervision and timely response of medical staff. However, in a situation when there is a large number of patients who receive different types of chemotherapy intravenously, several IV bottles a day, the presence of a nurse for each individual patient is practically impossible. It should be borne in mind that if the IV bottle is not replaced in time, the blood usually returns to the infusion tube, which results in a blocked cannula. There are two ways to solve this everyday problem. One is the use of a syringe and saline solution, which is extremely painful for the patient, and the other, if the first method does not help, is to replace the existing cannula with a new one, often through several attempts because the patient's veins are already in an advanced stage of trauma, manifested in bruising. Because of all of the above, we want to pay special attention and invest a great deal of effort to overcome this problem. In this paper, we propose a modern IV infusion dosing system that will be able to detect and signal the liquid level in the IV bottle, as well as to monitor and display the current state of IV infusion at a remote location such as the nurse room. This would significantly improve the traditional approach to IV therapy and greatly help both patients and medical staff, which is a real challenge for us. It should be noted that continuous and timely change of IV bottles can have positive effects on increasing the success of IV therapy, especially in oncology patients, where the drip times of IV bottles are strictly prescribed for the full effect of the drug. The paper is structured as follows. The first section stresses the motivation and goal of the research.