hospitALERT

In the developing world, babies are often born prematurely due to the mother's lack of nutrients. Premature infants often have developmental disabilities because their energy goes toward keeping themselves warm rather than developing their organs. As a result, these children often become partially blind or deaf.

The World Health Organization recommends that the best way to keep premature infants warm in low-resource areas is Kangaroo Mother Care. Kangaroo Mother Care is the system of placing the infant on the mother's (or father's) chest. An adult body can regulate its own temperature, so when the infant is placed on the parent's chest, the adult's body will regulate the infant's temperature.

Our project, hospitALERT is a temperature sensor that can be placed on the baby's body and will alert the mother when the baby's temperature falls into an unsafe range. Three user-friendly LEDs inform the parent that the baby is at a safe temperature (green), is too cold and should be placed in skin-to-skin contact with another person (yellow), or is way too cold and should be transported to a hospital (red).

Our data stream is sent from the Arduino to a Raspberry Pi, where it is then uploaded to a text file in an Amazon S3 account. The file on the S3 can be accessed and processed by medical professionals, either at a nearby hospital or in another country. The data can then be analyzed to determine trends in the temperatures for one particular child and multiple children in a region.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• arduino
• azure
• dallastemperature
• onewire
• python
• raspberry-pi