Advanced portable preterm baby incubator

Abstract

Abstract-Nearly 20 million premature and Low Birth Weight infants are born each year in developing countries, 4 million die within their first month. These deaths occur due to the unavailability or unreliability of traditional incubators. Moreover, although Telemedicine is helpful in rural areas, the shortage of healthcare providers have made it inaccessible in both basic healthcare. Thereby, traditional preterm baby and low-birth weight incubators and therapeutic techniques lack Telemedicine communication and feedback. The aim of our project is to develop an advanced portable and wireless-base incubator. We tend to provide an affordable, feasible, patient friendly and reliable premature baby incubator especially in low-income countries. The project focuses on the premature babies in the third trimester of pregnancy. The design is based on Wi-Fi and infrared technologies that measure the essential parameters that must be controlled for preemies. These parameters include the heart rate, oxygen level in the blood and temperature. Results showed the advanced design building blocks. The response of the generated power-voltage proves that the power can be regulated by the voltage. The thermal isolation can decrease the thermal lose and increase the time needed to drop temperature 6 times. In the room temperature of premature infant, 20 o C and 45 o C, the resistance decreases from 12.69 kΩ to 4.82 kΩ. The voltage and the temperature were inversely proportional. The heaters were efficient when tested on water. One of the major advantages of the device is that it surpasses existing techniques. As a future prospect more electronic components needs to be tested and features needs to be extracted.

A Handy Preterm Infant Incubator for Providing Intensive Care: Simulation, 3D Printed Prototype, and Evaluation

“…The results of both the warming system embedded in the Handy incubator and the thermal energy testing were provided in our previous publication [ 42 ].…”

Model and prototype of mobile incubator using PID controller based on Arduino Uno

“…Shaib dkk. [11] mengembangkan inkubator portabel dan nirkabel menggunakan Wi-fi dan infrared untuk mengukur detak jantung, level oksigen dalam darah, dan temperatur. Sendra dkk.…”

“…Fungsi lain dalam inkubator, selain kontrol temperatur, dapat diterapkan lebih lanjut, misalnya penambahan modul fototerapi untuk bayi dengan kekurangan bilirubin dan pemantauan denyut jantung seperti dalam [10], [11]. Penambahan modul nirkabel dapat juga dilakukan agar akses pemantauan data dari inkubator ke pengguna dan sistem kontrol dapat dilakukan secara nirkabel menggunakan Wi-fi atau infrared, seperti dalam [11], [12]. Selain itu, penerapan LoRa dapat dilakukan untuk menghimpun data dari banyak inkubator ke server basis data medis sehingga data dapat diolah dan digunakan oleh yang berkepentingan seperti [12].…”

Development of Incubator Analyzer Using Personal Computer Equiped With Measurement Certificate

“…Some newborns who have a gestational age or too light birth weight will place the baby at a high risk of death [1]. In developing countries, 20 million premature babies or low birth weight babies die due to unreliable baby incubators, of which 4 million premature babies die in the first month [2]. Important parameters for baby incubators include temperature, relative humidity, noise, and airflow velocity.…”