Wearable Fetus Monitoring: An IoMT Approach

The Internet of Things in healthcare is one of the novel applications. With growing innovations in other sectors, pressure is now on the healthcare industry to embrace digital change. Under the Internet of Things approach, a wearable fetus monitoring system was designed to be used by pregnant women. Currently, the interpretations of available fetus monitoring systems require expensive equipment operated by a trained midwife. This limits use of such systems by women from resource-poor locations. The proposed solution comprises of a smart mobile phone enabled software application. This new method monitors Fetal Heart Rate using Internet of Things where system can be connected with small Doppler device by smart mobile phone for observing abdominal area fetal parameters e.g. heart rate remotely. The software transforms the received data by calculating the mother fetal heart rate, stores the earlier readings, monitors fetal movement and provides this data to the remotely located midwife in a structured format as needed by the hospital system. Along with mother fetal heart rate, two other parameters of mother as heartbeat and body temperature is also measured. The goal of the Wearable Fetus Monitoring System is to empower mothers in remote locations with an opportunity to regularly screen fetal well-being and calculate fetus risk. This will help decrease maternal and fetal complications and deaths.