Baby Monitor for remote contactless monitoring of respiratory and heart rate is designed both for consumer and medical infant monitoring applications. Unlike conventional sound- and video-based baby monitors, which do not provide any useful information at infant sleep time (no sounds or static picture) the devices allow permanent parental control and effectively prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) from occurring. SIDS is reported to be leading death cause of healthy infants after one month age.
Baby Monitor Product
Baby Monitor Product
Baby Monitor Product
Baby Monitor Product
The importance of constant control over infant’s activity, especially during sleeptime is hard to overestimate. At present a typical baby monitor is a radio system used to remotely hear (and optionally watch) the infant. The transmitter is placed near to the child and the receiver is placed near to the person caring for the infant. However conventional baby monitors are not able to detect sleep apnea and prevent SIDS. This is caused by nature of the systems, which react on sound meaning that the baby is alive or display image of sleeping baby with no confirmation whether it breathes or not. Thus many doctors believe conventional baby monitors provide a false sense of security. There are several solutions though aiming SIDS prevention by looking at infant’s respiration.
Placing piezo-sensor pad below cot mattress which detects even the slightest movements. Such systems are limited to the sensor pad area and heavy for transportation for away use. Moreover, the sensor pad requires prevention maintenance activities in order to avoid high humidity level at the sensor location. • Motion sensor located in flexible rubber tip which is attached the diaper. The sensor detects even the slightest movements. Drawback of such systems is that the sensor tip must always be in contact with the skin which may disturb and irritate the baby. • Radar solutions prove to be contactless as well as sensitive enough while due to their RF nature they are dependent on reflected signal quality and signal to noise ratio. Next chapter will be focused on UWB radars which we find optimal to become the basis for next generation baby monitors.
Infant Incubator Monitor is designed for continuous contactless monitoring of premature or ill baby's vital signs such as motion, respiration and heart-beating when the baby is placed in infant incubator. The device is also capable to check environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, atmosphere conditions in the incubator. Presently probes must be attached to the baby in order to perform described above monitoring. Such actions can hurt the baby. NanoPulse Infant Incubator Monitor is contactless and trauma-free. The device informs supervisor about baby's condition and alarms when it observes dangerous abnormal parameter value preventing SIDS. There are two variants of the device implementation: autonomous device and embedded OEM module. First one has its own primary and backup power unit, LCD indicator, control module and alarm system. The device is implemented as a monoblock and is mounted on the top cover of the incubator. OEMversion has to be integrated in power, control and indication systems of the whole incubator. The device can be mounted inside the incubator body.
