Low cost infant monitoring and communication system

Author

Saadatian, Elham ; Iyer, Shruti Priya ; Lihui, Chen ; Fernando, Owen Noel Newton ; Hideaki, Nii ; Cheok, Adrian David ; Madurapperuma, Ajith Perakum ; Ponnampalam, Gopalakrishnakone ; Amin, Zubair

Author_Institution

Keio-NUS CUTE Center, Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

5-6 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

503

Lastpage

508

Abstract

This paper proposes a low-cost, mobile-based monitoring and advisory system that continuously monitors the baby and remotely updates the mother on child status. This technology involves continuous measuring of the temperature, heart rate and motion and send it to a server where the data is processed. The server analyzes the received data and sends the processed biological information of the baby to the mother and generates an alert system if the conditions of the baby are found abnormal. These alert messages are transmitted to support systems and nearby health clinics in emergency situations. Also, advisory first-aid information is sent to the mother in order to take immediate action. Thus, this ubiquitous system would enhance mother´s awareness of their baby health status.

Keywords

biomedical communication; cardiology; health care; medical computing; mobile computing; patient monitoring; temperature measurement; advisory first-aid information; advisory system; baby health status; baby monitoring; biological information processing; communication system; emergency situation; health clinics; heart rate measurement; infant monitoring; mobile-based monitoring; motion measurement; temperature measurement; ubiquitous system; Biomedical monitoring; Heart rate; Monitoring; Pediatrics; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; communication; health analysis; infant monitoring; low-cost Systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2011 IEEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0021-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHUSER.2011.6163782

Filename

6163782