Temperature and Water Level Controlled Steam Therapy Equipment

Abstract

Steam Therapy is a treatment method used extensively in the healthcare industry. Steam has numerous benefits which is why it is used in the healthcare industry. With the context of our project, we are focusing on the steam therapy used mainly by the physiotherapist for the treatment. There exists a steam therapy equipment which is used for the treatment, but is not user friendly. The current equipment does not consist of temperature control, water level indication and auto power on and off, because of which one needs to manually look after it. To make it more user friendly with less human intervention, we propose to develop a steam therapy equipment. We plan on adding various features to the existing model. The features are temperature control and water level indication. Our focus is to mainly remove human intervention as much as possible and make the equipment as smart as possible. To implement the prototyping of the above we have considered the ATmega328p microcontroller, DS18B20 as the temperature sensor and a Force sensor. Hence, to tackle the issues faced by the physiotherapist we plan to devise this model. Keywords—temperature control, water level indicator, microcontroller, force sensor