Smart Fetal Monitoring Belt

Simple and safe monitoring of fetal movement to ensure fetal well-being

Fetal movement is an important index of fetal well-being. Timely detection of abnormalities in fetal movement is vital to the avoidance of fetal loss, perinatal morbidity and maternal distress. Through its newly developed fabric sensor pad, the Smart Fetal Monitoring Belt can detect fetal movement automatically in a non-intrusively manner. It is able to enhance fetal care by monitoring fetal health and screening abnormalities with quantitative measurements. The innovative wearable monitoring belt is waterproof and radiation-free. Beside the unique soft sensor pad, it also features a control card and its software. The belt offers robust data acquisition, processing and analysis safely, reliably, easily, and effectively. There are no similar products on the market.

Special Features and Advantages

Enhances home health monitoring and lowers the costs of healthcare and medical services
Integrating sensing, textiles and information technologies for healthcare monitoring
Free of radiation and electromagnetic waves

Applications

Healthcare and telemedicine
Smart sensors, internet of things (IoT) and mobile apps
Data science including acquisition, storage, management, analysis, protection, information sharing and communication

Awards & Patent

Silver Medal – 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, Switzerland (April 2016)
Special Merit Award from Scientific Community of Romania (April 2016)

Patent Application No.:

201610099406.9 (PRC)

Principal Investigator

Prof. Jia YOU and Prof. Xiaoming TAO

Department of Computing / Institute of Textile & Clothing

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Smart Fetal Monitoring Belt

Simple and safe monitoring of fetal movement to ensure fetal well-being