GEMS Zimmer LS-300 ELS-950 FT-110 Sensor Role in Home Dialysis System Home hemodialysis is a highly user-friendly solution that can dramatically reduce the cost and inconvenience of patients going to the hospital on a regular basis***. Hospital-intensive** programs generally require 3 to 6 hours of blood processing and edema 3 times a week, thus achieving regularity** and optimizing the use of expensive systems.
On the other hand, patients can have the flexibility to do it daily or nightly, or even long-term** to better observe whether the kidneys are functioning properly, reduce the patient's edema and improve clinical outcomes. This type of device is portable and convenient for patients to carry around the home. The challenge of designing a home system is to ensure that the equipment is simple, robust, compact and easy to maintain. As the core safety and control element of such systems, fluid sensors play a particularly important role in flow, level and pressure detection, as well as valve control. One of the major constraints of the home system is the large amount of ultrapure water consumed during the dialysis process. Ultrapure water is generally supplied by replacing the storage barrel or continuously produced directly from the tap water by the dialysis system itself or by a separate purification system. Level and flow control of water supply equipment and ultrapure water is critical to the safe operation of the system and must therefore be monitored accurately and reliably over time. In addition, the sensor material is also important, otherwise it will contaminate the pure water and cause aging. To succeed in the market, home dialysis systems must also be extremely cost-conscious, so be sure to choose the most affordable sensor.
GEMS Sensors& Controls has been cooperating with professional home dialysis system R&D companies for a long time to customize and develop personalized solutions. We can help them dramatically improve efficiency, yield and quality by combining a range of ingenious smart sensors, lean manufacturing tools and ISO-certified quality processes. The technologies used in the current collaboration include multi-point level sensing (rugged LS-300 reed float level switch), single-point level sensing (ELS-950), and low flow rate sensing (FT-110 turbine flow meter). With ISO 13485 certification and more than 20 years of experience in the medical industry, GEMS Sensors has implemented a rigorous quality process from product design to production, after-sales support, and long-term traceability.
GEMS Sensors & Controls also takes a systems engineering approach to these challenges and has a deep understanding of system-level requirements and their interrelationships with other subsystems, ensuring that no detail is missed during the sensor design and planning phases. This approach also helps GEMS develop and deliver rigorously tested custom subsystems and manifolds that reduce potential leaks, improve product quality, and reduce overall costs, all of which are critical for life-critical dialysis systems. In addition to the immediate benefits to OEMs, offloading the design of the entire subsystem to a single ISO 13485 certified partner can help OEMs reduce cumbersome regulatory certification processes and design history documentation.