NeoNest

Neo-Nest is an IOT based Infant Incubator which provides optimum environmental conditions for a premature baby so that they may remain healthy and survive. In the healthcare industry of Pakistan, there is an unavailability of infant incubators due to their high costs and maintenance. Thousands of ba

Project Title

NeoNest

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

Neo-Nest is an IOT based Infant Incubator which provides optimum environmental conditions for a premature baby so that they may remain healthy and survive. In the healthcare industry of Pakistan, there is an unavailability of infant incubators due to their high costs and maintenance. Thousands of babies die every month due to this unavailability or non-working conditions of infant incubators. Neo-Nest provides a solution to both these factors as we are locally manufacturing these incubators with a remote mobile application and some automated features as well. A premature baby needs a controlled temperature, humidity and oxygen supply which is being provided to them through this device. The doctors or nurses can now monitor the baby without being on-guard with them all the time which helps them in productively utilizing their time without compromising on the condition of the preemies.

Project Objectives

Academic Objectives:

This project includes the use of IOT and Machine Learning to make an automated system. The main academic objectives are as follows:

•  One would be able to learn to make an android application. 
• One would learn to use machine learning algorithms to train the system and make it intelligent enough to make its own decisions. 
• As this project has a major hardware portion, so, it would give hands on experience in embedded systems development.  

Research Objectives:

As we are using machine learning techniques to automate our system and is first of its kind in Pakistan, so the main research objective is to make our learning algorithms as efficient as possible and enable remote monitoring using simple android device. Moreover, the design of low cost, building blocked design and use of effective materials is also a research challenge. Also, the innovation that we are doing can also take the form of a research paper which we can publish.

Industrial Objectives:

Our product provides a solution to the problem described above by developing: 

• An economical IOT based infant incubator with automatically controlled optimum conditions i.e. temperature, humidity and other essential factors. 
• A camera enabled monitoring using application that shows previous stats and generates an emergency alarm based on previous learning to minimize the death rate. 
• New advanced shape of an incubator to improvise the cleanliness of the incubator.
• A marketable product according to the need of Pakistan. The market size of the product in Pakistan is huge due to lack of incubators and costliness of them. 

This product being cost-effective fills the gap and hence is easily affordable and accessible for the hospitals in remote areas and non-metropolitan cities. In this way, it enables hospitals to accommodate more patients at a reasonable cost and helps to reduce the death rate of babies. 

Project Implementation Method

In the first phase of our project, we did several research surveys to check the need of this system. These surveys included paper based surveys and interviews from doctors and NICU staff. Which made us believe that its need is higher but the availability is lesser and even the available systems require some level of improvement. So, we involved our user in the method of creating the system. With this technique of co-creation, we wanted to ensure the acceptability of system by them. For the development of NEO-Nest, we used embedded design life cycle.

Embedded systems demand that for their design both hardware and software systems are being designed in parallel.

The phases of embedded design life cycle includes:

• Product specification.
• Partitioning of the design into its software and hardware components.
• Iteration and refinement of the partitioning.
• Independent hardware and software design tasks.
• Integration of the hardware and software components.
• Product testing.
• On-going maintenance and upgrading.

Benefits of the Project

The chances of a premature baby to survive without an optimum environment are very low and thus, millions of babies die every year only in Pakistan. The need here is to provide a solution so that the lives of these babies may be saved. Thus, Neo-Nest provides with a product that includes the following benefits:

• Providing optimum environmental conditions for the baby which includes temperature and humidity control, oxygen control and noise control systems.
• Enhanced control for the doctors via mobile application which helps in monitoring the conditions of the babies.
• Automated control of temperature and humidity levels based on the condition of the babies.
• An alert system to notify the doctors about any haphazard if it occurs.
• Economical system and locally available.
• An efficient hardware design as well which helps in maintenance of the system from a cleanliness perspective and also helps reduce the cost of the system and make it affordable for the hospitals.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

At the stage of final deliverable, it will provide its users the following services: 

• Manual and Automated Control of Temperature and humidity.
• Noise monitoring and oxygen supply system.
• Control through Android Application.
• Live Monitoring through camera.
• Alert system.
• Improved design of the product.
• One user can have one incubator.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Type of Industry

Medical

Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT)

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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