Abstract: In India 62 million trauma induced surgeries are performed every year.It is a witness more than 1,300 road crashes every day. There are around 10million pregnancy complications,230 million major operations and 331 millioncancer-related procedures like chemotherapy require blood transfusion. Beforereaching the needy on time each year, about 6.6 lakh units of blood and itscomponents are wasted in India.In2016 alone, the units of blood and its components were discarded across thecountry is over 6.58 lakh units. Around 50% of the wasted units were bloodcomponents and products such as plasma that has a longer shelf life of one yearas compared to whole blood unit and red blood cells that must be used within35-45 days. In this paper, we present an architecture prototype of acounty-wide Blood Management System using Internet of Things and Digital Twinwhereby any hospital or blood bank at the nearest location can search for theirdesired blood group and can donate to the nearest blood bank or hospital withinCity/State/Country in case of excess blood supply. Data about the hospitals andblood bank will be collected using web application hosted on cloud and it willbe accessible to hospitals, blood banks within the country. These data willcontain the Inventory information along with GPS location. Donors can enterdetails along with address and GPS coordinates. Primary reason of wastage isbecause of deterioration during storage and expiry of blood units due tooutdating. The study shall help to reduce blood wastage, improve transportationof blood units to all needy areas.
Keywords:Internet of Things, GPS, blood wastage,Transportation, Expiration