Infant Incubator Monitoring and Emergency Alarm System Using the Internet of Things

Abstract

Giving birth to a child is one of the most precious moments in life. Every second a new life is brought into the world and not many children are lucky enough to be healthy. Monitoring the health conditions of a baby in an incubator is considered a critical medical issue. Baby incubators play a vital role in the life-saving of premature babies since premature newborn babies cannot regulate their body temperatures on their own like normal newborn babies. Hence, there is a need for health caregiver interactions due to certain conditions. So a novel-based solution is provided in this paper for the above-mentioned problem by using the Internet of Things (IoT) in incubators to alert the neonatal nurses so that preventive measures can be taken. It prevents the theft from being held in the incubator rooms of the baby. The parameters such as heartbeat, temperature, wetness, etc., of the baby are monitored, measured, and saved in the cloud for every 10 minutes. The power failure is also intimated within a short span. Index Terms— Incubators, Internet of Things, Alerting, Neonatal, Parameters, Heartbeat, Temperature, Wetness, Cloud, Power Failure