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Abstract—Development of Embedded device for incubator for describe a sudden and unexpected infant death which is
the monitoring of infants is proposed here. Healthcare cost is an initially unexplained [3]. In many cases post-mortem
urgent issue globally. The costs for infant care are high due to examinations will find a reasonable cause of death, but there
highly intensive labor. For healthy infants, Sudden Infant Death are some cases where no reasonable cause is found and so
Syndrome (SIDS) is one of the most critical problems needed to the verdict of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is
be addressed and it requires a great deal of care labor. SIDS is
defined as any sudden and unexplained death of an apparently
registered. In the UK, 355 such deaths were registered in
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healthy infant aged from One month to one year. This research 2005 according to the UK Foundation for the Study of
work provides description of design of embedded device for Infant Deaths (FSID) ; in the USA it is estimated by the
monitoring of infants. The Embedded device includes sensors Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) that
for Door Security, Light Intensity, Voice detection, and 2250 infant deaths are registered as SIDS [3]. It is
temperature of incubator for the continuous monitoring of noteworthy that these figures are for infants aged 0-12
infants under clinical and home conditions. It will allow the months – in the UK during 2005 only 18 cases of SIDS
early detection of potential life threatening events. The device were recorded for infants aged over 12 months, indicating
would involve DSP Processor TMS320C5416. It is a stand-alone that infants are most at risk from SIDS in the first twelve
development and evaluation module. It allows evaluators to
examine certain characteristics of the C5416 digital signal
months of their lives.
processor (DSP) to determine if it meets their application According to the National SIDS/Infant Death Resource
requirements. Code Composer Studio is the integrated Centre, SIDS is responsible for roughly 50 deaths per
environment for TI’s DSP’s. CCStudio includes a suite of tools 100,000 births in the U.S. in 2004. The SIDS rate has been
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used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes declining due to the awareness in caregivers and parents but
Compilers for each of TI’s Device families, source code editor, it is still far higher than one would expect in such a
project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators and developed country like the U.S. The costs and suffering due
many other features. CCStudio provides a single user interface to the tragic occurrences of SIDS to families and societies
taking users through each step of the application development are significant [3]. Reducing the sudden death rate in infants
flow.
by an effective monitoring and alarm system is a challenge
for researchers considering the syndrome usually has no
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Keywords- Incubator; DSP TMS320VC5416 Processor; Door obvious warning signs or symptoms.
Security; Light Intensity; Voice Detection. 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
I. INTRODUCTION
previous approaches for the monitoring of infants provides
parameters like respiration, heart rate, temperature and
The demand of physicians for the development of humidity, to detect excessive sweating, for the continuous
monitoring and diagnostic systems which are easier to monitoring of infants. Main goal of a proposed system is to
handle and less obtrusive than the commonly used medical provide more security and more parameters for incubator for
systems is the motivation for the said work. Another the continuous monitoring of infants under clinical and
motivation is the frequently expressed concern by parents home conditions.
about the danger of apparently life threatening events or Main objective of a proposed system is
even the problems of sudden infant’s death syndrome. 1.
Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI), or cot To monitor the parameters Like Light, respiration,
death as it is more commonly referred to, is the term used to Audio/ voice of the baby that he/she is ok or
crying.
The developed sensory baby vest for the monitoring of III PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
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infants includes fully integrated sensors for the parameters
respiration, heart rate, temperature and humidity, to detect
excessive sweating, for the continuous monitoring of infants This proposed scheme aims to design an embedded
under clinical and home conditions. It allows the early alert device which supports mainly the following Features:
for potential life threatening events as well as the 1. AUDIO monitoring.
recognition of the development or progression of diseases at 2. Light sensing & Alarm/LED indication.
an early stage. Health protection or even life-saving is
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enabled in time [1]. A variety of principles for the 3. Door sensor to sense Intruder.
measurement of the parameters have been assessed for the 4. sense temperature of the incubator
integration into the garment. Prototypes have been The device would involve DSP Processor
manufactured incorporating the chosen sensing principles TMS320C5416 and sensors which can be interfaced with
with textile and textile-compatible technologies. 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
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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
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Light
Sensing
Circuitry
Power
Supply Figure 3: Block Diagram of TMS320VC5416
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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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VI. APPLICATIONS
VII. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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REFERENCES
July 2009.
continuously monitored by system & will display the status [10] TMS320C54x Code Composer Studio Tutorial. Literature Number:
on LEDs or gives alarm. SPRU327C February 2000.
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