Ms. Kranti A Dive et al.
/ (IJAEST) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Infants monitoring by developing an Embedded
Device for incubator
Ms. Kranti A Dive
Research Scholar,
Computer Science & Engg dept.
G.H.Raisoni.College of Engg.
Nagpur, India
kforkranti@gmail.com
Abstract—Development of Embedded device for incubator for
the monitoring of infants is proposed here. Healthcare cost is an
urgent issue globally. The costs for infant care are high due to
highly intensive labor. For healthy infants, Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS) is one of the most critical problems needed to
be addressed and it requires a great deal of care labor. SIDS is
defined as any sudden and unexplained death of an apparently
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healthy infant aged from One month to one year. This research
work provides description of design of embedded device for
monitoring of infants. The Embedded device includes sensors
for Door Security, Light Intensity, Voice detection, and
temperature of incubator for the continuous monitoring of
infants under clinical and home conditions. It will allow the
early detection of potential life threatening events. The device
would involve DSP Processor TMS320C5416. It is a stand-alone
development and evaluation module. It allows evaluators to
examine certain characteristics of the C5416 digital signal
processor (DSP) to determine if it meets their application
requirements. Code Composer Studio is the integrated
environment for TI’s DSP’s. CCStudio includes a suite of tools
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used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes
Compilers for each of TI’s Device families, source code editor,
project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators and
many other features. CCStudio provides a single user interface
taking users through each step of the application development
flow.
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Keywords- Incubator; DSP TMS320VC5416 Processor; Door
Security; Light Intensity; Voice Detection.
I. INTRODUCTION
The demand of physicians for the development of
monitoring and diagnostic systems which are easier to
handle and less obtrusive than the commonly used medical
systems is the motivation for the said work. Another
motivation is the frequently expressed concern by parents
about the danger of apparently life threatening events or
even the problems of sudden infant’s death syndrome.
Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI), or cot
death as it is more commonly referred to, is the term used to
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Prof. R. W. Jasutkar
Computer Science & Engg dept.
G.H.Raisoni.College of Engg.
Nagpur, India
r_jasutkar@yahoo.com
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describe a sudden and unexpected infant death which is
initially unexplained [3]. In many cases post-mortem
examinations will find a reasonable cause of death, but there
are some cases where no reasonable cause is found and so
the verdict of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is
registered. In the UK, 355 such deaths were registered in
2005 according to the UK Foundation for the Study of
Infant Deaths (FSID) ; in the USA it is estimated by the
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) that
2250 infant deaths are registered as SIDS [3]. It is
noteworthy that these figures are for infants aged 0-12
months – in the UK during 2005 only 18 cases of SIDS
were recorded for infants aged over 12 months, indicating
that infants are most at risk from SIDS in the first twelve
months of their lives.
According to the National SIDS/Infant Death Resource
Centre, SIDS is responsible for roughly 50 deaths per
100,000 births in the U.S. in 2004. The SIDS rate has been
declining due to the awareness in caregivers and parents but
it is still far higher than one would expect in such a
developed country like the U.S. The costs and suffering due
to the tragic occurrences of SIDS to families and societies
are significant [3]. Reducing the sudden death rate in infants
by an effective monitoring and alarm system is a challenge
for researchers considering the syndrome usually has no
obvious warning signs or symptoms.
The aim of this work is to provide such a monitoring and
diagnostic system which is easier to handle and less
obstructive than the commonly used medical systems. Most
previous approaches for the monitoring of infants provides
parameters like respiration, heart rate, temperature and
humidity, to detect excessive sweating, for the continuous
monitoring of infants. Main goal of a proposed system is to
provide more security and more parameters for incubator for
the continuous monitoring of infants under clinical and
home conditions.
Main objective of a proposed system is
1.
To monitor the parameters Like Light, respiration,
Audio/ voice of the baby that he/she is ok or
crying.
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2.
oor parameter to provide Intruder bell so that it will
gives alarm/Led indication if any personal will
come at the place /Room of baby by breaking the
sensor.
3.
To monitor the temperature of the incubator.
All these parameters are continuously monitored by
system & will display the status on LEDs.
II LITERATURE REVIEW
The developed sensory baby vest for the monitoring of
infants includes fully integrated sensors for the parameters
respiration, heart rate, temperature and humidity, to detect
excessive sweating, for the continuous monitoring of infants
under clinical and home conditions. It allows the early alert
for potential life threatening events as well as the
recognition of the development or progression of diseases at
an early stage. Health protection or even life-saving is
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enabled in time [1]. A variety of principles for the
measurement of the parameters have been assessed for the
integration into the garment. Prototypes have been
manufactured incorporating the chosen sensing principles
with textile and textile-compatible technologies.
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Figure 1: Causes of infant death during the first year
Of life in Germany (2003)[1]
A non-invasive infant monitoring system includes CO2
sensors to non-invasively monitor the exhaled air from an
infant in order to reduce the potential risks for Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) [3]. CO2 sensors placed in
the crib around an infant to non-invasively monitor the
exhaled air concentration variation from him/her. By
monitoring the outputs of CO2 sensors, we can detect if
there is anything unusual with the infant’s respiration. The
output data is sent wirelessly to activate an alarm or logged
for further diagnoses.
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The Developed Cot Death for Infants D in Day Care
system also worked on infant’s respiration. There are some
proposed infant monitoring systems, such as
cardiopulmonary monitoring, vision monitoring, oxygen
consumption monitoring and multi-purpose monitoring.
Many of these approaches are invasive Tmaking both the
infant and parents uncomfortable while some of the
monitoring systems are not effective enough due to the
unrecognized signs or low response of SIDS [3]. In many
SIDS cases, the infants stop breathing without any signs of
trauma.
III PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
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This proposed scheme aims to design an embedded
device which supports mainly the following Features:
1. AUDIO monitoring.
2. Light sensing & Alarm/LED indication.
3. Door sensor to sense Intruder.
4. sense temperature of the incubator
The device would involve DSP Processor
TMS320C5416 and sensors which can be interfaced with
DSP processor. The system will monitor the 4 parameters
Door, Light, air temperature of that incubator, Audio/ voice
of the baby that he/she is ok or crying. The Door parameter
provides an Intruder bell it will gives alarm/Led indication if
any person will come at the place /Room of baby by
breaking the sensor. Light Intensity can be monitored by
using LDR (Light dependent register). Device use
temperature sensor to monitor overall temperature of the
incubator. All these parameters are continuously monitored
by system & will display the status on LEDs or gives alarm.
DSP processors are microprocessors designed to perform
digital signal Processing—the mathematical manipulation of
digitally represented signals. Digital signal processing is one
of the core technologies in rapidly growing application areas
such as wireless communications, audio and video
processing, and industrial control. Most DSP processors
share some common basic features designed to support
high-performance, repetitive, numerically intensive tasks.
Most DSP processors share some common basic features
designed to support high-performance, repetitive,
numerically intensive tasks. The most often cited of these
feature is the ability to perform one or more multiply-
accumulate operations (often called ―M ACs‖) in a single
instruction cycle.
A second feature shared by DSP processors is the
ability to complete several accesses to memory in a single
instruction cycle. A third feature often used to speed
arithmetic processing on DSP processors is one or more
dedicated address generation units.
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Voice Audio LED/

input /Voice ALARM
From Input Indications
Mic / PC Connector
(for
demo) DSP
Processor
TMS320
Speaker V C5416
at control
Magnetic
room Temperature
Door
Sensor At Sensor
the door

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Light
Sensing
Circuitry
Power
Supply Figure 3: Block Diagram of TMS320VC5416
Adapter

ES Figure 3. Shows a block diagram of the basic

Figure2: Block Diagram of Embedded Device for Incubator
A. DSP TMS320C5416 Processor
The TMS320VC5416 DSK is a stand-alone development
and evaluation module. It allows evaluators to examine
certain characteristics of the C5416 digital signal processor
(DSP) to determine if it meets their application
requirements. Furthermore, the module is an excellent
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platform to develop and run software for the
TMS320VC5416 family of processors. The DSK allows full
speed verification of VC5416 code. With 64K words of on
board RAM memory, 256K words of on board Flash ROM,
and a Burr Brown PCM 3002 stereo codec, the board can
solve a variety of problems as shipped. Three expansion
connectors are provided for interfacing to evaluation
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configuration for the VC5416 DSK. The major interfaces of
the DSK include the target RAM and ROM interface, FPGA
interface, Codec interface, and expansion interface. The
VC5416 interfaces to 64K words of on board RAM and
256K words of Flash ROM. An external I/O interface
supports parallel I/O ports and multi channel buffered
synchronous serial ports. A Flash Boot ROM is mapped into
data memory space. Four stereo jacks provide input and
outputs to and from the codec.
B. Magnetic door sensor
 Light Sensing Circuitry
Light intensity can be monitored by using LDR (Light
Dependent Register).An LDR is a component that has a
resistance that changes with the light intensity that falls
upon it. They have a resistance that falls with an increase in
the light intensity falling upon the device.

circuitry not provided on the as shipped configuration. To

simplify code development and shorten debugging time, a
special version of Code Composer Studio is shipped with
the board. Key Features of the TMS320VC5416 DSK are:
 VC5416 operating at 16-160 MHz.
 On board USB JTAG controller with plug and play
drivers
 64K words of on board RAM
 256K words of on board Flash ROM
 3 Expansion Connectors (Memory Interface, Peripheral
Interface, and Host Port Interface)
 On board IEEE 1149.1 JTAG Connection for Optional
Emulation Debug
C. C5416 DSK Code Composer Studio™ IDE
Code Composer Studio is the integrated environment for
TI’s DSP’s. CCStudio includes a suite of tools used to
develop and debug embedded applications. It includes
Compilers for each of TI’s Device families, source code
editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler,
simulators and many other features. CCStudio provides a
single user interface taking users through each step of the
application development flow [10].
Code Composer Studio extends the basic code generation
tools with a set of debugging and real-time analysis
capabilities. Code Composer Studio supports all phases of
the development cycle shown here:

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D. Code Generation Tools

Design Code & Debugging Analyze The code generation tools provide the foundation for
Build the development environment provided by Code Composer
Create Syntax Real Time Studio. Figure shows a typical software development flow.
Conceptual
Planning Project, Checking Debugging The most common software development path for C
Write Probe Statistics, language programs is shaded. Other portions are peripheral
source Points, Tracing functions that enhance the development process.
code Logging. The following list describes the tools shown in Figure5:
,Configura
tion File
 The C compiler accepts C source code and produces
assembly language source code.
 The assembler translates assembly language source
files into machine language object files. The machine
Figure 4: Phases of the Development Cycle. language is based on common object file format

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(COFF).
Code Composer Studio includes the following components:  The linker combines object files into a single
executable object module. As it creates the executable
1. TMS320C54x code generation tools module, it performs relocation and resolves external
2. Code Composer Studio Integrated Development references. The linker accepts replaceable COFF object
Environment (IDE) files and object libraries as input.
3. DSP/BIOS plug-ins and API ES  The archiver allows you to collect a group of files into
4. RTDX plug-in, host interface and API. a single archive file, called a library. The archiver also
allows you to modify a library by deleting, replacing,
These components work together as shown here: extracting, or adding members.
 The mnemonic-to-algebraic assembly translator
utility converts an assembly language source file
containing mnemonic instructions into an assembly
language source file containing algebraic instructions.
 You can use the library-build utility to build your own
customized run-time-support library.
 The run-time-support libraries contain ANSI
standard run-time-support functions, compiler utility
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 functions, floating-point arithmetic functions, and I/O
functions that are supported by the C compiler.
 The hex conversion utility converts a COFF object file
into TI-Tagged, ASCII-hex, Intel, Motorola-S, or
Tektronix object format.
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 The cross-reference lister uses object files to cross-

reference symbols, their definitions, and their
references in the linked source files.
 The absolute lister accepts linked object files as input
and creates .abs files as output. You assemble the .files
Figure 5 : code composer studio with components[10] to produce a listing that contains absolute addresses
rather than relative addresses. Without the absolute
lister, producing such a listing would be tedious and
require many manual operations [10].

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Figure 6: software Development Flow
IV CONCLUSION
This paper discussed a development of embedded device
for incubator for the monitoring of infants. The device
would involve DSP Processor TMS320C5416 and sensors
which can be interfaced with DSP processor. The system
will monitor the 4 parameters Door, Light, temperature of
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that incubator, Audio/ voice of the baby that he/she is ok or
crying. The Door parameter provides an Intruder bell it will
gives alarm/Led indication if any person will come at the
place /Room of baby by breaking the sensor. Light Intensity
can be monitored by using LDR (Light dependent register).
Device use temperature sensor to monitor overall
temperature of the incubator. All these parameters are
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continuously monitored by system & will display the status
on LEDs or gives alarm.
V FUTURE SCOPE
For future work embedded device can implement more
parameters for the incubator. It can provide sudden power
failure prevention technique. In further developments the
cable connector will be replaced by telemetric data
transmission using established protocols like blue tooth or
zigbee thus making the system even more practical and
comfortable in daily life.
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VI. APPLICATIONS
This embedded device gives more robust protection as it is
providing door security and monitoring of light intensity,
air temperature, audio or voice detection. So this approach is
more suitable for the continuous monitoring of infants under
clinical and home conditions.
VII. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author would like to gratefully thank to Prof. R. W.
Jasutkar for her valuable Guidence and Qualitat Systems
(Embedded syatems , VLSI & Software) Pune for their
Technical support.
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