Toward a Compact Infant Monitoring System Using UWB Radar and Environmental Sensors

The development of an infant monitoring system is considered by many researchers to prevent the infant death number especially against the sudden infant death syndrome. Currently, the research focus on the system compactness and portability. Therefore, this paper discusses the development of a compact infant monitoring system employing non-contact physical and environmental sensors. This proposed system detect the infant breath by using an ultra-wideband radar which simultaneously measures the infant surrounding parameters to prevent any abnormality using environmental sensors. Also, to avoid any mechanical accident, this system is provided with an infant and/or cot tri-axial vibration sensing. A real-time visual monitoring is available lively for the users. The recorded numerical sensing data is sent to the server database where the parents or other family members can access and monitor directly using mobile phone or computer through a network connection. The system application evaluation was conducted qualitatively which shows that this developed system is a very promising infant monitoring tool providing the portability and compactness.