I-CORPS Team: Cocoon Cam, a Wearless Smart Baby Monitor

尽管有婴儿监控器，父母仍会定期检查他们的婴儿。传统的基于视频或音频的婴儿监视器无法检测生命体征或识别婴儿是否不适。父母喜欢现有的基于视频的监视器，以确认婴儿醒着时是否安全无恙，但婴儿睡觉时缺乏身体活动会导致焦虑和反复检查婴儿。这个问题最近导致了可穿戴式婴儿监测器的开发，可以检测生命体征。然而，由于无线电频率效应和可能的皮肤过敏，可穿戴设备被认为对婴儿的健康有害。该团队开发的技术包括软件和硬件的集成，使其能够从单一设备昼夜同时非接触式测量心率和呼吸率以及体温。i-Corps团队将制造一种便携式非接触式设备来检测生命体征，并消除连接或非常接近婴儿的硬件的需要。建议的解决方案是Cocoon Cam，这是一种无穿戴网络连接系统，由硬件和软件传感器组成，并在仪表板上提供视频、音频和生命体征，以便在白天或晚上检查这些数据。家长可以在智能手机上查看仪表盘，并为任何受监控的功能设置个性化警报。父母们认为，一个可靠的设备，可以帮助监测生命体征是有益的，并让他们的孩子安心，他们的孩子是健康和舒适的。

Despite the availability of baby monitors, parents continue to check on their baby at regular intervals. Conventional video or audio based baby monitors are not able to detect vitals or identify if the baby is unwell. Parents like existing video based monitors to confirm that the baby is safe and well when awake, but the lack of body movement while the baby is sleeping leads to anxiety and repeated check on the baby. This problem recently led to the development of wearable baby monitors that can detect vitals. However, wearables are perceived detrimental to the baby's health due to radio frequency effects and possible skin allergies. The technology developed by this team involves integration of software and hardware enabling concurrent non-contact measurement of heart and respiratory rate, and temperature from a single device, day and night.This I-Corps team will build a portable non-contact device to detect vital signs and eliminate the need for hardware to be attached or in extremely close proximity to the baby. The proposed solution is Cocoon Cam, a wearless network-connected system that consists of hardware and software sensors and provides video, audio, and vitals on a dashboard to check on those at day or night. Parents can view the dashboard on a smartphone and set personalized alerts for any of the monitored features. Parents perceive that a dependable device that could help monitor vitals is beneficial and gives peace of mind that their babies are healthy and comfortable.