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Emergency Alert System for Neonatal Unit using

2021 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication Control and Networking (ICAC3N) | 978-1-6654-3811-7/21/$31.00 ©2021 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICAC3N53548.2021.9725481

IoT
Vishnuvarthanan Govindaraj Arunprasath Thiagarajan Shalini Uthirapathi
Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Kalasalingam Academy of Research and
Education Education Education
srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu, India srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu, India srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu, India.
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Archana Shree Murugiah Durga Devi Jeevagan

Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education
srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu, India. srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu, India
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Abstract- As normal new-born babies, premature new-born system based on monitoring the baby's humidity and
babies cannot control their own body temperature. By having temperature. whenever it crosses its threshold level it offers
an atmosphere that can be changed to provide the optimum an alert notification to the health care professionals to save
temperature as well as the right amount of oxygen, humidity, the babies.
and light, neonatal incubators play a crucial role in saving
premature babies' lives. Owing to a lack of adequate control of
The The measured data will be processed
the incubator, some premature babies have lost their lives. If immediately with NodeMCU module ESP8266.The device
an unexpected condition occurs, via an alarm system, it will be is operated via IOT (Internet of Things) that could be used
signaled to the health professional's mobile device. Early to transfer the measured datas over internet that may be
treatment will be provided to the infected babies by alerting accessed through net or Android. The main objective of this
them and the chance of recovery will be increased. We alert system is to monitor the toddler’s temperature and
concentrated on monitoring the biological parameters for humidity inside the incubator.
multiple incubators to resolve this problem. And if there are
any fluctuations in the biological parameters from the usual
standard to be preserved, then the health professionals will be II. LITERATURE SURVEY
indicated through the blynk application.

KeyWords—Premature babies, neonatal incubator, Internet of In the literature survey, we have gone through a range
things. of scientific papers, journals, and review publications, all of
which have a different approach in neonatal incubator
monitoring and the material which have been used so far. We
I.INTRODUCTION have analyzed the problems acquiring for the infants when they
n evolved and growing countries , many premature babies were kept in the incubator. So, we have selectively mentioned
Idie in the first week of birth. According to World Health some papers which are more related and helpful for our project.
Organization, statistics of slight hypothermia is 36.0 to Ali. m et.al. [1] have proposed a system for
36.41°Celsius.In Fahrenheit 96.8 to 97.51°F; (2) moderate monitoring humidity and temperature. Here, they are using
hypothermia is 32.0° to 35.91°Celsius.In Fahrenheit 89.6 to Arduino based microcontroller, four temperature sensor and
96.61° F; and (3) excessive hypothermia is 32.1°Celsius, humidity sensor that's used to modify the incubator
less than 89.61°F. So right here the incubator performs a temperature range and along with that it will reveal pores
huge function wherein the incubator temperature should be and skin temperature of the neonates.
set to preserve the toddler’s temperature between 95°F and Ashish. B [2] have proposed about the outside
98°F or 99°F. circuit includes the MCU node connected to the incubator.
The toddler can live well with these temperatures. The temperature sensor (LM35) this is included into the
The incubator is one of the equipment to assist neonates to node MCU senses the incubator temperature. If it exceeds
alter with the outdoor environment due to the fact the than the required temperature varied then monitored with
circumstance withinside the womb may be very different the help of pc then the relay is going OFF and the alarm is
with the outdoor environment. The temperature within the going ON and the heater is going off. It allows early
womb is about 36-°C- 37°C however the outdoor detection of capacity life-threatening activities and
environment is about 27°C–28°C. In addition, an incubator continues a steady environment.
protects premature babies from illness, allergies, excessive Bosoc, C. S et.al. [3] have discussed the making
noise, all of which may cause harm. Sometimes, the plans of a device that implements the temperature and
temperature and humidity varies inside the incubator all of humidity tracking feature of the incubators for newborns
a sudden. For that our proposed method is to design an alert they use LIBELIUM Smart Environment plate containing

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calibrated sensors that offer high-quality value in

temperature and humidity .
B. FLOW CHART
De Oliveira Filho, J. I et.al. [4] have designed a
risk management system for neonate incubator which can It is mainly designed to monitor the incubator’s temperature and
humidity. It’s well known that the normal growth of neonates are
able to detect the temperature irregularities in newborns
significantly affected by any of these parameters. The required
like physiological status and conditions. Thereby we can sensors will be incorporated into the incubator thereby we can able
able to avoiding or responding quickly to danger. to measure the range of both important parameters like temperature
Inam. S et.al. [5] have developed a system that and humidity using a Temperature using the DHT11 sensors. The
would be accessed and managed over the internet by the power supply is connected to the sensors and the Arduino Uno.
health care professionals through the android. It will collect The data measured from those sensors will be fed into the Arduino.
the data of neonates incubators and stored it on an internet If there is any fluctuation from the fixed level then it will be
server. displayed in the LCD. Then with the help of the Wi-Fi Module,
Koli. M et.al. [6] have discussed about the Arduino those data will be transferred to the Blynk app.
programming code that is used to control the temperature. A
buzzer is used to signal a change in temperature in a baby
Temperature differences can be tracked everywhere at any
time using the IoT internet technology. They were in charge
of controlling temperature fluctuations.
Nachabe. L et.al. [7] have designed the framework
consists of distributed software system agents power-
assisted by the restriction application protocol. The System
was with success administered and tested throughout a
hospital in north Lebanon.
Najib, S. M et.al. [8] They designed a neonatal
tracking structures primarily based totally on temperature
and pulse information, and with the assist of those sensors
the measured information switch through IoT.

A. Sahoo. S et.al. [9] In this paper they have used wireless

transmission used to give alert sound to the infant
nursing station that can be notified by health care
professional.

III. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY

 A. BLOCK DIAGRAM

Our proposed methodology is to design an

Emergency Alert System for the Neonatal unit using IoT
mainly to detect the important parameters of multiple
incubators in the neonatal unit.The advantage of this system
is to closely monitor the infant’s condition which will be
useful for the health professionals. Fig.2. Flow Chart

IV. PROTOTYPE OUTPUT

A. IMPLEMENTATION OF HARDWARE
COMPONENTS FOR MONITORING

This device is used to notifies the health professional

whenever the temperature and humidity ranges are
abnormal. When you switch on this device, the power
supply will transfer an Alternating Current of 220 V to the
transformer. The purpose of transformer is to convert AC
from one voltage to another; Diode acts as a rectifier and
then Capacitor is used for filter purpose where it converts
the AC into pure DC which will be given as an input to the
7805 regulator which exactly gives the output as 5V to all
other hardware components like LCD, Wi-Fi Module and
sensors. Now the microcontroller collects the data from
both the DHT11 sensors and displayed those data in LCD
Fig 1. Block diagram as T1, H1 & T2, H2 when the temperature and humidity

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gets fluctuates. Node MCU is used to push the data

received from Arduino over internet with the help of a
Blynk app.

Fig .3. Implementation of Hardware components for Monitoring Infant Fig .5 Simulation Output.
Incubator.
D. PROGRAM
B. NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

Fig .6 Program of Emergency Alert System

V. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

In this paper, we innovated an Emergency Alert

System for Neonatal Unit using IoT to detect important
parameters for multiple incubators. Whenever the DHT11
Fig.4Notification through Blynk APP Sensor collects the value of temperature and humidity
Blynk Application is used here to notifies the getting fluctuated from the fixed range, then it alerts the
fluctuations of humidity and temperature arising in the health professionals. Thereby they can able to protect the
infant incubator. Red colour in the blynk app shows the preemies in earlier stage. The newly design and developed
fluctuation of humidity in the incubator as shown in fig. 4 Emergency Alert System for Neonatal Unit using IoT
provides better results and reduces the injury. The most
C. SIMULATION OUTPUT (PROTEOUS important advantages, it sends notification to the care-taker
SOFTWARE) to avoid major problems. In future work, we would like to
do this in Software to secure those medical data along with
few more parameters.

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