A smart wearable system for sudden infant death syndrome monitoring
Abstract : Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is one of the major causes of death among infants during their sleep. To increase the safety of the infants, we matched different emergent research fields for the development of Baby Night Watch. This Smart Wearable System (SWS), developed under the context of the European Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) 2015, is composed by the following elements: a Wearable IoT Device, a Gateway and the H Medical Interface. The Wearable IoT Device is a wireless sensor node integrated in a Chest Belt, and it has the capacity to monitor the following parameters: body temperature, heart and breathing rates and body position. After a minimal data processing, this set of information is sent to the Gateway, via ZigBee technology, and it is accessible to the user through the H Medical Interface. If a critical event occurs, the device will trigger an alarm, visible and audible in the proximity, and sends a distress message to a mobile application. The Baby Night Watch is an important tool for medical studies, since it allows the visualization of previous physiological data and export it to different types of datasets. Experimental tests have proven that the SWS has the potential to identify situations that could be potentially life-threatening for an infant.
? The infant has to be watched continuously day and night it is a tedious process.
? The Zigbee technology could not cover large distances
? There it is not possible to receive information about the infant from long distances.Also the timing is not accurate.
? Therefore there may be some issues regarding the timing to give tablets etc.
? The pressure sensor is used to determine the breath rate of the infant.
? The temperature and heart beat sensors are used to determine the temperature and heart beat of the infant respectively.
? This makes our system less intrusive, more comfortable and, we have not to deal with problem of insufficient contact between the skin and the sensor.
? Generally, understanding Infant’s problem is too tedious and they will show their distress distress by crying.
? A home based IoT framework exceptionally intended for new born children which would considerably help parents to understand the infant’s problem.
? Most of the issues faced by the infant and parents will get updated information on a real-time basis by extending the use of wireless communication technologies.
• This paper proposes a productive infant monitoring framework utilizing wearable sensors with wireless communication medium.
• The proposed framework utilizes a new simpler design which comprise of relevant sensors attached to microcontroller and it is safely fasten with infant.
• The proposed system consists of various nano sensors and communication modules used in effective monitoring of the infant.
• In the proposed system, the pulse sensor is used to measure the heart rate of the infant constantly and if any abnormal readings the indication will be sent to their parent’s through GSM module.
• Various kinds of wearable sensors have emerged for different purposes with the development of sensing technologies.
? With a careful selection of the threshold limits the algorithm is able to achieve a good performance.
? A similar performance was achieved when the infant is lying on his stomach but, in this situation, the data collected was from the YY’s axis.
? Along with the metrics reliability and latency, the system has to operate continuously for long periods of time (over 8 hours), making the energy efficiency an important metric of the system.
? A reduction of the computation resources required and, consequently, on a more energy efficient algorithm.
? The biggest advantage of the TMP007 is that it allows to measure the infant’s body temperature without any contact with the skin of the infant.
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