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A team of electric and computer engineering students has created a wearable infant heart and lung monitor that sends babies\u2019 vital signs to a smartphone app, reassuring nervous parents and reducing the chance Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, which claims the lives of about 2,500 babies a year. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>“Our motivation was understanding the anxiety new parents\u2019 experience regarding their baby’s safety, especially in the nighttime or when leaving the baby with a caretaker,\u201d says team member Nidhi Batra. “Traditional audio\/video baby monitors work but require constant monitoring. With our wearable device, alerts from the device are sent directly to the mother’s smartphone only when something may be wrong.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Batra, Allison Shannon, and Zhehao Zhang w<\/span>ill present a prototype of their fully rechargeable 3D Wearable Infant Heart and Lung Monitor, <\/span>including all components, wiring and a printed teddy bear face case, on May 1 at Design Day, the Whiting School of Engineering\u2019s annual celebration of student innovation. <\/span><\/p>\n

The monitor features a built-in stethoscope and microphone that process heartbeat and lung sounds to detect pulse rate and irregular breathing. The microcontroller, equipped with a gyroscope, provides readings used to determine if the baby fell, was shaken, or flipped over. The wearable, envisioned as a small soft adhesive device resembling a teddy bear head, attaches to an infant’s onesie near their heart and is rechargeable. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>“One challenge we have faced is selecting the microcontroller,” Batra says. “We have chosen the Arduino Nano 33 IOT for its speed, size, Wi-Fi connectivity, and built-in gyroscope. However, its small storage capacity limits our device to reading either the gyroscope or heart\/lung sounds, not both simultaneously. Future plans involve adding another microcontroller to enable simultaneous monitoring or switching to a different microcontroller.”<\/span><\/p>\n

As their prototype progresses through the testing phase, Batra explains that the overall size will be reduced, and softer material introduced.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-570009","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-student-experience"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIntroducing the future of infant monitoring - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/introducing-the-future-of-infant-monitoring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introducing the future of infant monitoring - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A team of electric and computer engineering students has created a wearable infant heart and lung monitor that sends babies\u2019 vital signs to a smartphone app, reassuring nervous parents and…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/introducing-the-future-of-infant-monitoring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-06T18:12:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Introducing the future of infant monitoring - 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