Wearable Device to Monitor Vital Signs of Preggers
6. SNAPSHOT OF THE SYSTEM DESIGN
The proposed system is a wearable device which monitors the health condition of expectant mothers’
and transmits data to the respective gynecologist / physician. With this kind of real time wearable systems, doctors can provide high quality and more personalized healthcare to these women. This
health monitoring system would allow a pregnant woman to interact with a physician with almost full functional capability. The data will be collected from the wearable belt, phone interviews, via questionnaires, and electronic patient records. The quantitative data which is stored in cloud will then be analyzed with hierarchical linear mixed models for repeated measures, and qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis.
Fig. 2. Proposed system design 7. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION
Our three-dimensional approach towards this battery operated wearable device and service that we offer is about delivering excellence to our rural women’s, safe guarding the environment and ensuring that it doesn’t cause any health impacts to the expectant women and her foetal. The main purpose of developing a versatile, cost effective and efficient smart health monitoring system, has been successfully realized at the end of the design process. The entire system is an integration of hardware, software implementations.
Fig. 3. Foetal heart rate
The pregnant women are advised the tie the wearable module across their womb and the sensors immediately captured the information and same were displayed. This is helping the expectant mother to know about her foetal condition. Also we have guided the pregnant women about the wearing position, how to discriminate between normal and abnormal readings etc., The system designed and developed was tested for various woman and the system has produced expected results.
Fig. 3 shows the Foetal heart rate for certain time interval and Fig. 4 shows the saturation level of oxygen of the pregnant woman, both are shown in the physician mobile using Thingspeak, web computing host so that the data is available in the cloud. For minor complications the first aid advice was sent through IOT [15] (Thingspeak software) to the expectant mother. In overall the design yield the required output and the major challenge in our project in integrating the foetal heart rate sensor module.
Fig. 4. PPG sensor value 8. FUTURE ENCHANCEMENT
In future the device can be implemented for monitoring the newly born baby. This wearable device can be implemented for physically challenged persons and elderly persons.
COMPETING INTERESTS
Authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Biography of author(s)
Dr. L. K. Hema
ECE Department, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
Research and Academic Experience:
Academic- 25 years Research: 9 years
Research Area: Wireless Sensor Networks, Hardware Security, VLSI Design, Artificial Intelligence, Wearable technology Number of Published papers: 30
Special Award (If any): Best Researcher Award by Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation
Any other remarkable point(s): Completed projects funded by DRDO, MHRD-Unnat BharathAbhiyan, Member in ISTE, IEEE, IAWS.
R. Mohana Priya
ECE Department, AarupadaiVeedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
Research and Academic Experience: 5 Years & 14.6 Years Research Area: Image Processing
Number of Published papers: 16
Special Award (If any): AVIT BEST WOMEN FACULTY AWARD-2020, AVIT, VMRF Any other remarkable point(s):Participated in National & International Conferences,
Participated actively in Workshops, Seminar, FDP, AICTE-STTP, NITTTR-FDP Completed NPTEL and Coursera courses
IETE Life member
Dr. K. L. Shunmuganathan
Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
Research and Academic Experience:
Teaching: 30 Yrs Research: 14 Yrs
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence, Networks, DBMS Number of Published papers: 147
Special Award (If any):
1. BEST FACULTY AWARD 2014-2015 BY COGNIZANT
2. FOR OUT STANDING PERFORMANCE - Prof. K. Arumugam National Award for Innovative Research (for Engineering College Teachers only) instituted by the Management of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore
3. BEST TEACHER AWARD 2020 – Lions Club
Any other remarkable point(s):39 Ph.D scholars have been awarded under the guidance
S. Velmurugan
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
Research and Academic Experience: Design and development of Assistive technology based embedded systems.
Research Area: Assistive technology and Rehabilitation Engineering Number of Published papers: 1
Special Award (If any): 1. My Project proposal has been selected as the best by IEEE MADRAS SECTION under SPF scheme for financial support.
Project Name: IOT Based Real Time Monitoring and Control System for Food Grain Procurement and Storage.
2. My project has been selected and shortlisted for AICTE-ECI-ISTE ChhatraVishwakarma Awards 2018-2019 among 1500 entries for National Convention at AICTE Head quarters, New Delhi.
Project Name: IOT Based Smart Energy Meter Using Cloud Service
Any other remarkable point(s): University Rank Holder, Gold medalist
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