IoT (Internet of Things) Based Infant Body Temperature Monitoring

Body temperature of the baby is an important element that will inform the actual health condition of a baby. Parents and caregiver occasionally do not aware of drastic increase in body temperature in a short period of time and febrile seizure may happen that could leads to epilepsy. In Malaysia, device that could monitor the infant body's temperature is already available. However, the device could not continuously be used for a long hours and create discomfort to the babies due to its size of devices. Therefore, a small, lightweight device that continuously monitors the body temperature and comfortably used by baby is developed. It directly helps parents by alerting them whenever the baby's body temperature increased higher than normal a degree. This system monitors the vital parameter which is the body temperature by using a wearable sensor. The information then transferred to their parents through a wireless network. The system is extended for interfacing with the mobile phones to enable remote monitoring. Architecture of the system consists of a wearable sensor for monitoring the vital parameter and a sound buzzer where all of the component be controlled by a single microcontroller, the ESPresso Lite V2.0 based on ESP8266 and supplied by the lithium ion polymer battery. Even though the system is more focusing on temperature monitoring only, it can be further expanded or upgrade to monitor other vital parameter such as heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiration rate or any other parameter.