Incubator monitoring system using ZigBee technology

• Main Authors: Cabanas, Mary Grace Ann S., Chua, Guido Alphonse L., Santiago, Richard R., Tan, John Elvin S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Incubators (Pediatrics); Incubators (Pediatrics) > Design and construction; Wireless LANs"
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14460
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research aims to transmit a baby's vital signs and incubator information through wireless medium from a ZigBee device connected to a sensor board, located in the incubator, to another ZigBee device connected to a computer at the nurses' station in order to make possible the remote monitoring of the status of the incubator and the infant inside it. The structure of the system is basically having a transmitting mote, consisting of a sensor board and a ZigBee-compliant radio, set up in an incubator and a base station mote which will receive the data packets from the different transmitting motes. The sensor board of the transmitting mote consists of a pulse oximeter which measures the oxygen saturation level and pulse rate of the infant, a humidity sensor used to measure the relative humidity inside the incubator and temperature sensors for the temperature measurement of both the infant and the incubator. All these measurements will be sent by the mote through the ZigBee-compliant radio. On the base station side, the received packets will then be forwarded into the serial port for further processing and the useful data extracted from the received packets representing the different vital signs can be viewed by medical personnel in a Graphical User Interface (GUI).