The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad has developed a portable, cost-effective, and IoT-enabled ventilator powered by lithium-ion batteries. The smart ventilator named ‘Jeevan Lite’ was launched by Telangana Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan recently.
The institute in a statement informed that it is now available for commercial use. The institute informed that each unit costs about 4 lakh rupees against similar imported devices priced at about 10-15 lakh rupees per unit.
The Governor said, the innovations like Jeevan Lite will improve the public healthcare facilities as the maintenance of medical devices was affected due to delay in import of certain parts during the Covid pandemic.
The Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled ventilator operates uninterrupted in synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation, continuous mandatory ventilation, adaptive and hybrid modes of ventilation for five hours and is both invasive and non-invasive. The Ventilator can be controlled using a smartphone app.
