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14 Child Development Sensor
Eu Hong Woo
Xiang Wen
Yang An Tang
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This is a project in collaboration with a Mechanical Engineering team from ME 470 :
Jeffrey Nie (jnie8)
Junwu Zhang (jzhng120)
Perry Robert Zumbrook (zumbrok2)
Jessica Nicole Brooks (jnbrook2
Mehu Pandey (mpandey3)

This project will be advised and funded by:
Prof. Harley Johnson (htj)
Prof. Nancy L McElwain (mcelwn)

Statement:
The objective of this project is to build a wearable device that monitors an infant's vital signs (heart rate, body temp, movements etc) and voice audio recordings. This device will be used by researchers in Human Development & Family Studies, Psychology, Educational Psychology, Speech &Hearing Science, and Electrical Engineering to safely and unobtrusively monitor physiological responses in young children. This device differs from what's on the market such that it collects ECG waveforms rather than BPM which are common in other device. This device actually consists of two main parts, the sensor node and hub. The data collected will be easily accessible through a phone or tablet device with an internet connection.

Concerns:
Since this device is to be worn by an infant, there are a few requirements to be met, namely:
- Non intrusive, meaning it won't be an obstruction to an infants movements.
- Safe. Should not have any harm from electric shortages or should not be easily ingested by an infant.
- Consumes low power so that any heat produced won't irritate an infant.

Specifications:
With these requirements in mind, our team will mainly focus on building the sensing part of the project that requires a few components:
- A main processing hub which receives streamed data wirelessly from the sensor node worn by a child and pushes it to a cloud storage server for anywhere, anytime retrieval of the data.
- A low-powered sensing unit worn by a child which can measure mainly ECG heart rate and record audio. Data will then be sent via Bluetooth/Zigbee or some form of low-energy protocol to the main hub. The sensing unit will also be independently powered by a battery source.
- A cloud computing server to store and process the data. And an iOS/Android/PC application which can stream the data remotely from the server.

The clothing or outer shell which our device will be mounted on, will be designed by the Mechanical Engineering team.

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