INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES,

JAMSHORO

BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION II

SEMESTER PROJECT
[Visualized Hand Wash Timer]

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM

Farwa Qureshi (19BME14)
Moomal Ansari (19BME26)
Nimra Imdad (19BME27)
Zohra (19BME39)
SUBMITTED TO MADAM NATASHA
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LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES,
JAMSHORO

Complex Engineering Problem

A 40-year-old female had a recent contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19. Ms. Anderson
works in a grocery store in a rural area of coastal Maryland and is responsible for maintaining a
grocery store; keeping everything in its place to ensure it runs efficiently. Ms. Anderson began
to develop mild symptoms i.e, fever, headache, dry cough and shortness of breath and decided
to get tested for the virus that causes COVID-19. The test has come back positive.

Solution
With the current pandemic in the world, the situation seems pretty scary. The Corona virus
might be anywhere. As far as we know, one might carry the virus for a few days without even
showing any symptoms.
Our hands are the main carrier of all sorts of germs. We frequently touch our eyes, nose, and
mouth without even noticing it. Germs from unwashed hands might get into our food as well,
some of which may even grow in the food and when we eat those, they can make us seriously
sick. And washing hands for at least a good 20 seconds with soap can mostly kill them.
This simple timer sits next to your hand soap dispenser. It has a sensor on top that detects when
you take your hand in front of the soap dispenser. Then it starts counting down 20 seconds,
lighting up one LED after another. Once the green LED turns on, you have washed your hands
long enough to kill most of the germs, and you can wash the soap off with water.

Components Required
● Arduino UNO
● Ultrasonic sensor
● 5 red LEDs
● 1 blue LED
● 1 green LED
● Breadboard
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Working Principle
The Arduino is connected to an ultrasonic distance sensor, and 6 LEDs. The Arduino is sending
ultrasonic sound waves with the distance sensor and checking the time it takes for the sound
waves to be reflected back to the sensor. Using the time, it measures the distance of anything
right in front of it. So the Arduino is always reading the sensor, waiting for your hand to appear
within 30 centimeters. As soon as it detects something within 20 centimeters, the Arduino turns
on the red LED and waits for 4 seconds for you to take some water and soap on your hands.
Then it starts the 20 seconds countdown. Eventually the 5 blue LEDs light up, one by one, over
the period of 20 seconds. Once the green LED turns up, you have washed your hands for long
enough and you can rinse off the soap.

Block Diagram
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