A smart clinical Lab Assistant: From design to build
Subject Areas : Multimedia Processing, Communications Systems, Intelligent Systems
Saba Sadeghi Bigham
1
(
Farzanegan1 high school, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents, Tehran, Iran
)
Golsa Salari
2
(
Farzanegan1 high school, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents, Tehran, Iran
)
Fatemeh Rezaeian
3
(
Farzanegan1 high school, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents, Tehran, Iran
)
Maryam Davoudi
4
(
Department of Medical Laboratory, School of Allied Health Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
)
Keywords: intelligent designs, Contamination, Environmental pollution, protocol,
Abstract :
Introduction: Nowadays, scientific laboratories are moving towards becoming intelligent. However, reading the test steps and recording the findings is often still done by paper note-taking, which can cause the transfer of microbial (parasites, fungi, viruses, bacteria) and chemicals (such as acrylamide and radioactive substances) contamination to the researcher's personal devices and notes. This sometimes even leads to the spread of pollution to spaces outside the laboratory. The purpose of this study is to design and implement an intelligent voice-controlled tool that can carry out the testing and recording of findings with voice commands to software designed on the researcher's mobile phone without the need to touch.Method: The proposed design consists of two parts, software, and hardware. Its "hardware" or "remote control" part consists of a PCB board that enables the control to connect to the mobile Wi-Fi through its ESP32 Wi-Fi module. Next to this board, a keyboard is designed which consists of 4 operation keys. For the software part, C Sharp programming language was used and it was developed using the Xamarian framework to design an Android application. This application provides the functionalities to perform an experiment.Findings: First, the correct operation of 4 keys was tested by the computer test, and by pressing each of the keys, the words Next', 'Previous', 'Record', and 'Play/Stop' appeared on the software installed on the laptop, which showed the command It is running correctly. In addition, upon exiting the software on the computer, the control lamp would also turn red, which indicates the correct disconnection. In the following, this test was repeated using a mobile phone with the Android operating system, which showed the correct communication and correct operation of the four operating keys.Discussion: In general, the designed laboratory audio assistant has been able to minimize the problem of transferring contamination to personal devices and researcher's notes when working with laboratory protocols and record findings with a new method.
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