Integrated Blood Type Detector with IoT System to Improve Indonesian Red-Cross Public Health Services

Abstract

In 2008, asurvey held by the World Health Organization shows that the blood stock in Indonesia is 0.2% of the total population, which is lower than the minimum requirement for health services (2,5% of the total population) because of the low quality of donor equipmentand incompetent workers. In addition, the current regulation on blood  availability  monitoring  seems a rather  complex  and challengingprocess. This  study  aimsto  create  an integrated device thatcantest the blood type and serves as a database of bloodstockin several IRCsto accelerate the distribution of blood between IRC and hospital. This research utilizes the Internet of Things (IoT) using a Wi-Fimodule to create a device thatcould send data to computers using the internet. Through an experiment of 85 respondents, results showed that the accuracy of the device in detecting blood type is 96.5%. The time taken for the  data  to  be  received  by  the  computer  varies  with  the  internet  network  used.  The  fastest  data  transfer  was acceptedusing a 4G network, which requires only 1.9 seconds. Meanwhile, the 3G and 2G networkstook around 3.17 and 18.17 seconds,respectively