Background
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I always had these three questions in my mind “How can I build it?”, “How can I improve it?” and “How can I improve people’s lives using it?”.
I graduated college through the reputed distance-learning Computer Science program of Regis University, Denver in Colorado. My last course in the program was Senior Capstone Project, in which I had come up with a real world idea and work on it from the point of view of Computer Science. I wished to work on a project through which I would have been able to apply my CS and Maker skills, as well as contribute to humanity in a positive manner.
Hence, I decided to create this innovative medical solution for my Senior Capstone Project. My solution has a potential to save lives of premature babies.
Premature babies have difficulty in controlling their muscles, feeding themselves and breathing. This leads to major issues. Those babies are not able to breastfeed or bottle-feed optimally. They have breathing difficulties. This leads to severe malnutrition or oxygen deficiency, and that can even lead to deaths.
Experts have proposed that if doctors are able to monitor some parameters in real time, they would gain an ability to quickly alter treatments providing optimal care to such delicate babies.
Technical Overview
I have implemented the idea using an Arduino microcontroller development board and an Android smartphone app that I designed. My solution is very convenient, technologically advanced and very affordable. It contains an inexpensive device and a mobile phone app. Doctors would be able to monitor the babies’ essential parameters on a single click on their phone screen. I’m sure my device has a potential to become a powerful tool in saving lives of premature babies in developed as well as underdeveloped parts of the world.
My innovative device was featured in the news.