Design of Cost-Effective Automated CPAP with LabView for Sleep Apnea Patient

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has become more common in recent days due to overweight, obesity, stress, and depression. It is a serious disorder where the patient's breathing repeatedly stops and starts. It is linked to social, economic, and health consequences. Due to the complicated design of the existing work, a new design of a simplified Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device with LabVIEW software has been proposed. In lab view software, the different virtual components like the blower, relay, and respiratory sensor will be placed. First, the virtual patient is positioned in virtual LabVIEW to check whether the patient is affected by OSA or a normal level patient. The blower is mainly used to level the flow of air (i.e., inhale and exhale). Further, the relay is employed to provide a time delay function, and it is utilized to control high-voltage and current circuits. In LabVIEW, the breathing level and threshold level frequencies are fixed with the aid of a respiratory sensor. The key aim of this proposed work is to control OSA patients. If the patient suffers from OSA, the respiratory sensor can supply the air pressure to the OSA patients based on different respiratory rate ranges.