International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887) Volume 160 – No 5, February 2017 34 An Innovative Approach for Infant Monitoring System using Pulse Rate and Oxygen Level Mrudula Borkar Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University AISSMSCOE, Pune, India Neha Kenkre Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University AISSMSCOE, Pune, India Harshada Patke Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University AISSMSCOE, Pune, India Ankita Gupta Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University Professor, Computer, AISSMSCOE, Pune, India ABSTRACT Monitoring health parameters of newborns such as respiration patterns, oxygen level, sleep activity etc. is necessary to ensure salubriousness of their health. A conventional approach does not efficiently provide the real-time updates of these baby health parameters. Also, this approach avails parents to constantly monitor the parameters of a baby to ensure their health. As both parents nowadays, work outside and it is not always possible to monitor the baby in-person, it is necessary to make use of modern technologies. It will be beneficial for the parents to readily track the health of the infant and getting updates in detrimental conditions. Also, the parents could be equipped with the suggestions about preventive measures which should be taken at the given time. To detect any unfavorable condition of the baby, the monitoring parameters are compared with the normal or under control parameters. Whenever parameter rises above the threshold, parents are informed. Keywords Android Mobile, Arduino board, Bluetooth, Cloud, Microprocessor, Short Messaging Service, Global System for Mobile, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. 1. INTRODUCTION In India, both the parents need to work and look after their infant, so more workload and stress is there in such families, especially on female counterparts. Increasing female participation in various work fields have given rise to a need where Women have to take care of their family and at the same time handle the work pressure. Subsequently, infant care has become a challenge to many families in their daily life. Mother always worries about the well being of her baby while working. In order to tackle this, a „Baby Monitoring System‟ can be developed which would help the parents to track the infant‟s health and also obtain continuous updates of health. Besides this, the system will also notify the parents about the abnormal situation so that they can take appropriate steps accordingly. The system will help the parents to take care of their child not only when they are at home but also when they are at the office or outside their home. A conventional approach to monitor the infant includes constant monitoring of infant using a web camera or keeping nurse for the baby or using audio monitoring. But, this system will provide peace of mind to parents when they are away from their infant as they can obtain the updates of health of baby. Communication is done by GSM interface in which Short Messaging Service (SMS) is a fundamental part. Earlier the manual participation was required for monitoring babies which was a tedious job. With the advancement in technology, various different types of baby monitoring systems were introduced such as Sound Monitors which included the use of transmitter and receiver to transmit the voice of baby to its parents. The main drawback of this system was that the device was capable of transmitting the voice only in one direction that is from baby to its parents but not vice versa.Another system that used Video Monitors displayed the video of baby‟s live activities continuously to parents. The problem with the above systems was that they were inefficient to take appropriate care of the baby as they either used video or audio which was inefficient to provide the proper information and parameters of baby's health. This proposed system focus on the information that it receives from sensors which would be helpful to maintain health of a baby by transmitting audio and video data. Additionally, text messages are sent to parents in order to provide the live updates of baby's health and thus overcome the drawbacks of the above- mentioned systems. 2. REVIEW OF RELATED WORK Andre G. Ferreira et al. A Smart Wearable System for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Monitoring, SIDS i.e. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is one of the major causes of death among infants during sleep. The wearable IoT device is a wireless sensor node integrated into a chest belt, and it monitors parameters such as body temperature, heart and breathing rates and body position. If a critical event occurs, the device will trigger an alarm, visible and audible in the proximity and sends a distress message to a mobile application. [1] Mairo Leier et al. Miniaturized Wireless Monitor for Long- term Monitoring of Newborns, Wireless infant monitoring system is a small size wearable sensor platform. In this paper; they proposed a monitoring system that detects the most important vital signals of baby and transmits results over a wireless link to the control device that could be any Smartphone. By measuring the raw signals, it is possible to use this system in different, possible life threatening situations during long-term monitoring. [2] Angelo M. Fonseca et al. A Sudden Infant Death Prevention System for Babies, the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is an expert diagnosis when an apparently healthy baby dies