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Design of a wearable remote neonatal health monitoring device

Communications in Computer and Information Science, ISSN: 1865-0929, Vol: 511, Page: 34-51
2015
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In this text we present the design of a wearable health monitoring device capable of remotely monitoring health parameters of neonates for the first few weeks after birth. The device is primarily aimed at continuously tracking the skin temperature to indicate the onset of hypothermia in newborns. A medical grade thermistor is responsible for temperature measurement and is directly interfaced to a microcontroller with an integrated bluetooth low energy radio. An inertial sensor is also present in the device to facilitate breathing rate measurement which has been discussed briefly. Sensed data is transferred securely over bluetooth low energy radio to a nearby gateway, which relays the information to a central database for real time monitoring. Low power optimizations at both the circuit and software levels ensure a prolonged battery life. The device is packaged in a baby friendly, water proof housing and is easily sterilizable and reusable.

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Hiteshwar Rao; Dhruv Saxena; G. V. Sagar; Bharadwaj Amrutur; Saurabh Kumar; Prem Mony; Prashanth Thankachan; Kiruba Shankar; Suman Rao; Swarnarekha Bhat

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Computer Science; Mathematics

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