Title :
Remote, real-time monitoring and analysis of vital signs of neonatal graduate infants
Author :
Greer, Robert ; Olivier, Christian ; Pugh, J. Edward ; Eklund, J. Mikael ; McGregor, Carolyn
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Bus., Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Technol., Oshawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
This paper presents a system for the remote monitoring of a newborn infant´s physiological data outside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. By providing a simple means for parents to enable monitoring, and physicians a simple mobile application to monitor live and historical physiological information, this system provides the insight once only possible in an Intensive Care Unit. The system utilizes a variety of connectivity means such as Wi-Fi and 3G to facilitate the communication between a multitude of industry standard vital sign monitor and a remote server. A system trial monitoring an infant to simulate neonatal graduate monitoring has determined the system was able to successfully transmit 99.99% of data generated from the vital sign monitor.
Keywords :
paediatrics; patient care; patient monitoring; telemedicine; 3G connectivity; Wi-Fi connectivity; historical physiological information; monitor live; neonatal graduate infants; neonatal graduate monitoring; neonatal intensive care unit; newborn infant physiological data; real-time monitoring; remote monitoring; remote server; simple mobile application; vital sign analysis; vital sign monitoring; Biomedical monitoring; Computers; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Pediatrics; Real-time systems; Servers; Artemis; NICU; Neonatal Intensive Care; PICU; Pediatric Intensive Care; Physiological Monitoring; Remote Patient Monitoring; Telemedicine; Vital Signs;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943857