KR20100080730A - Sleeping bed with safety management for infant - Google Patents

Abstract

  In the present invention, a safety management system for infants and young children uses a cot-type safety management system to measure the safety status of infants and young children, and use the ubiquitous sensor network (USN) to interpret the results and / or their interpretations. The present invention relates to a system and services for safety management of infants and young children by transmitting to a monitoring terminal of a supervisor (parent or medical staff) or a central monitoring system server.

 The system according to the present invention is in the form of infant and infant bed, and is a measuring equipment incorporating a combination of sensors capable of measuring non-contact electrocardiogram, temperature, humidity, dust concentration, weight, and sound on the mattress and bed support of the bed and an intelligent algorithm.

 Event analysis results using the safety monitoring program are transmitted using ubiquitous sensor network technology, and depending on the usage environment (for home, hospital, postpartum care center, etc.), the monitor (parent, medical staff, nanny, etc.) is used for text messages or By sending a warning message through a dedicated terminal, it is possible to quickly take action according to the condition of the infant and infant, thereby reducing the possibility of death or improving the survival rate.

Description

 Infant and toddler safety bed {SLEEPING BED WITH SAFETY MANAGEMENT FOR INFANT}

 The present invention relates to safety beds and services for infants and infants, and more specifically, to monitor the healthy and safe nurturing of infants and young children, parents, medical staff, or caregivers are used by infants and infants in the sleeping environment of infants and young children. The present invention relates to a safety management system and service method for infants and toddlers who can cope with emergencies by continuously managing and monitoring their safety status and transmitting the result to a monitor using a ubiquitous sensor network.

 Among the various diseases and deaths that occur in infants and young children, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), as well as infants and infants during fever, convulsions, seizures and colds, etc. It can have fatal consequences for infants.

Among them, SIDS is a sudden sudden and inexplicable sudden death that occurs in infants and young children under 1 year of age. It occurs mainly in infants between 1 month and 1 year of age, and sudden death due to most SIDS occurs when the baby is between 1 month and 4 months old. It occurs more in boys than girls, and most sudden death occurs in autumn, winter, and early spring. This death is sudden and unpredictable, and in most cases, babies look healthy and suddenly have difficulty breathing, usually occurring during sleep, leading to rapid death.

Recent studies have reported that hormonal and indirect smoking may also affect SIDS, and that most infants and infants who died suddenly had a cold or mild viral respiratory illness when they died. There is also research showing that the probability of occurrence increases. However, 30 years after the study, scientists still have no clear cause for SIDS, and there is no way to prevent or predict it. Instead, to reduce the risk of SIDS, you can put your baby on a solid mattress, stop smoking to prevent secondhand smoke by parents, keep warm temperatures, and put the child down.

Although the probability of occurrence is low, in order to prevent the loss of precious infants and young children's lives at the time of occurrence, caregivers and parents are taking care of their infants and toddlers by taking a night's sleep and looking at infants and toddlers. However, it is always inconvenient to focus everything on infants and toddlers and to monitor and manage them, and to have vague anxiety about emergencies that may occur at the moment of digging. In addition to the manual measurement and management of periodic infant and infant body temperature using a thermometer, there are several patented technologies that can automatically monitor the health status of infants and toddlers in the prior art. Among them, there is a tailor-made garment for infants and young children using wearable sensors. This is to detect the state of the infant and infant by using the clothes with the built-in various bio-signal measuring electrode to transmit to the monitor. In addition, there is a method of using the video system to identify the image status of the infant and infant and deliver it to the monitor.

 The above techniques offer technical solutions in their own way, but special types of clothing applied to the child may cause troubles on the child's skin, and additional clothes for monitoring add to the burden on the user. In addition, the identification of infant and infant status using a video system has a limitation in that it is not practical because there are technical difficulties in analyzing the infant and infant health status using image information.

 The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to automatically and continuously grasp the safety status of infants and toddlers automatically and continuously in a non-contact manner that does not touch the body of infants and infants for the convenience of users, and delivers an immediate warning to the monitor when a dangerous situation occurs. Its purpose is to provide safe management systems and services that enable treatment and emergency transportation, ultimately helping the healthy and safe nurturing of infants and young children.

Infant and infant safety management system and service according to the present invention,

As a means to provide infant and infant safety management services,

Bed with built-in safety management for infants and toddlers

It consists of a monitor terminal that receives information from the safety management bed for infants and infants and reports it to the monitor.

Safety beds used by infants and toddlers in bed,

Sensor unit consisting of sensors for measuring contactless ECG, temperature, humidity, dust concentration, weight, sound,

A central processing unit which performs an algorithm for discriminating between infants and infants using a signal measured from a sensor;

Finally, the communication unit for implementing the ubiquitous network by transmitting the measured information and the analyzed information to the outside,

It is a type of bed with built in hardware.

Among the sensors that enter the infant and infant safety management equipment,

The non-contact ECG sensor measures the RA electrode, the LA electrode, and the reference electrode by using a capacitive electrode. The capacitive electrode refers to an electrode for measuring electrocardiogram with a change in capacitance in a non-contact manner rather than a conventional contact Ag-AgCl electrode, and the electrode itself is made of a metal plate or conductive cloth having a predetermined size. The position of the non-contact ECG electrode detects RA and LA signals at both rear lights of infants and infants, and detects reference signals at the lower body to measure ECG signals.

Temperature sensor is a semiconductor type temperature sensor that measures the ambient temperature in the environment where infants and infants fall asleep.

Humidity sensor and dust concentration sensor,

By measuring the ambient humidity and dust concentration in the environment where infants and infants fall asleep, it is measured whether or not it is a comfortable sleeping environment.

The sound signal measured using the microphone,

It can be used to discriminate the presence or absence of voice signal due to coughing, cramping and seizure of infants and infants.

Infant / infant safety care The weight sensor on the four corners of the underside of the bed,

The infant's and infant's weight change is recorded in general, and the state of development is comprehensively recorded, and it is used to detect an emergency with a sudden change in movement in case of an emergency accompanied by seizure cramps.

Each sensor part's signal is electrically connected

Are converted into digital signals, and events are analyzed through emergency detection algorithms,

Analyze the results using the communication unit,

Transmit to monitor side terminal.

The communication unit for transmitting alerts and results,

Wireless communication technologies for ubiquitous networks include Bluetooth, Zigbee, WirelessLAN, and CDMA.

The monitor terminal is a communication unit for receiving data from infant and child safety management equipment,

It consists of a display that shows the data received.

It consists of a dedicated terminal or a mobile phone.

How to deliver the monitoring results to the monitor,

Direct delivery to local monitors using local area communications;

For delivery to remote monitors outside the home,

After the data transmission from the communication department of the infant and infant safety management equipment to the home server in the home,

It includes a method of sending a mobile phone text message from a home server through a commercial network (Internet) to a remote monitor.

  As described above, the infant and infant safety management bed of the present invention measures the safety state of the infant and infant, and as a result or (and) an interpretation thereof (e.g., an emergency), the ubiquitous sensor network (USN ) Will be sent to the terminal or computer server of the supervisor, medical staff, or nanny to provide safety management services, and in the event of an emergency, infants and toddlers will be promoted through quick measures.

 Through these systems and services, it is possible to secure user convenience through non-contact measurement, to reduce the burden of parenting, and to enable continuous and immediate safety management of infants and young children. This will reduce the chance of infant and infant death.

1 is a service overview of the infant and infant safety management bed according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the safety management service using the infant / infant safety management bed 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes the infant / infant safety management bed 200 and the infant / infant which is the measurement target of the safety management. (100), the near field of the safety management equipment implemented by the monitor 400 in the home (600) or the home (600) other monitor (410), Bluetooth, Zigbee, WirelessLAN to monitor the health information of infants and infants from the safety management equipment Telecommunication method 300, CDMA, WiBro, HSDPA, telecommunication method 800 and home server 500, general Internet communication network 700, and a remote computer server for continuously recording the results of safety management services ( 900).

 Infant / infant bedtime safety management bed (200) automatically monitor the infant and infant (100) at the time of bedtime and rest of the usual time automatically measured heart rate, temperature, humidity, dust concentration, weight, sound The information is analyzed to determine the safety status of the infant and the infant 100 first, and when it is determined that the safety status of the infant and the infant 100 is abnormal or an emergency situation, the information is transmitted to the ubiquitous network communication within the home 600. By using the near field communication method 300 for sending a warning message to the terminal of the monitor (400).

 In addition, after transmitting the information to the home server 500 using the short-range communication 300 as a method for delivering to the monitor 410 outside the home 600, the mobile phone text to the dedicated program in the home server 500 Sending a message or a warning message of a mobile phone-specific program through the communication network 700 to send a warning message to the remote monitor 410 using a telecommunication method (800).

 In addition, in order to record a continuous state of health status other than an emergency signal, after transmitting the information to the home server 500 using the short-range communication method 300, the communication network 700 from a dedicated program in the home server 500 Data is sent to the remote computer server 900 through the remote computer server, and the remote computer server 900 records and keeps the status of the delivered infants and toddlers, and the healthy development of the infants and toddlers 100 to the future monitor 400. It provides a service that periodically checks the situation via the Internet.

 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the infant and infant safety management bed 200 of FIG. The infant and infant safety management bed is composed of a latex mattress 210 and a mattress for sleeping, and consists of a mattress underlay 220 with a communication unit, a central processing unit and a weight sensor.

3A is a perspective view of the mattress 210 of the infant and infant safety management bed of FIG. The mattress 210 is made of a latex material using a stretchable and breathable material, and is a mattress in the form of a round groove as shown in the middle in order to prevent the case of sleeping and straightening the waist of infants in bed. In addition, the temperature, humidity, dust sensor 211 for measuring the temperature, humidity and dust concentration in the infant bed, and the microphone 212 for measuring the sound is arranged on both sides of the head of the mattress. In order to measure the non-contact electrocardiogram, the non-contact electrocardiogram is measured by arranging the RA electrode 213 and the LA electrode 214 at a portion that is in contact with the back and the reference electrode 215 at the portion where the lower body is placed.

3B is a perspective view of the infant and infant safety management bed support 220 of FIG. Bed underlay (220) equipment supports the mattress (210). For weighing, the four legs of the underlay are equipped with a bed leg with a weight sensor 221 built therein to measure the weight change of infants and also to measure sudden movements such as seizures and convulsions. The signals measured by the weight sensor 221 of the bed underlay and the various sensors built into the mattress 210 are processed by the controller 222 having the central processing unit and the communication unit and transmitted to the monitor 400 terminal through the communication unit. ㆍ Monitor the safety status of the infant 100 in real time.

 FIG. 3C is a side view of the infant and infant safety management bed 200 of FIG. The position of each sensor and the bed underlay 220 built in the above-described round grooved mattress 210 may be examined.

Figure 4 is an exemplary implementation of the details of multiple infant and infant monitoring services available in postpartum care centers, hospitals, etc. according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the space (610) where multiple infants and infants need to be monitored at the same time, such as postpartum care centers and hospitals, they use multiple infant and infant safety management beds (200) for bedtime and rest time of infants and toddlers. Automatically observes infants and toddlers 100 and analyzes measured temperature, humidity, dust, weight, movement, and sound information to primarily determine safety status of infants and toddlers 100, If it is determined that there is an abnormality or an emergency situation, a warning message is sent to a surveillance person 401 terminal of a hospital or postpartum care center 610 using the short-range communication method 300 based on this information.

In addition, as a method for transferring to the caregiver 402 outside the hospital and postpartum care center 610, when the information is transmitted to the hospital and the postpartum care center server 500 using the short-range communication method 300, the hospital and postpartum care center server 500 The mobile phone text message transmission from a dedicated program in the) or a warning message using the mobile phone dedicated program to send a message to the guardian 402 of the remote location through the CDMA wireless telecommunication method 800 through the communication network (700).

In addition, in order to record a continuous state of health status other than an emergency signal, by using the short-range communication method 300 to transmit information to the hospital, postpartum care server 500 to communicate from a dedicated program in the hospital, postpartum care server 500 Data is sent to the remote computer server 900 via the network 700, and the remote computer server 900 records and keeps the status of the delivered infants and young children to the guardian 402 in the future. It provides a service that allows you to check your healthy development status periodically through the Internet.

1 is a service overview of the infant and infant safety management bed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the infant and infant safety management bed 200 of FIG.

3A is a perspective view of the mattress unit 210 of the infant and infant safety management bed of FIG.

3B is a perspective view of the infant and infant safety management bed support 220 of FIG.

FIG. 3C is a side view of the infant and infant safety management bed 200 of FIG.

Figure 4 is a detailed illustration of multiple infant and infant monitoring services according to an embodiment of the present invention

** Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawing **

100: infant and infant 200: infant and infant safety care bed

210: mattress 220: bed underlay

300: short-range wireless communication 400: watcher

500: home server 600: home

700: General Purpose Network 800: Long Range Wireless Communication

900: remote server

Claims (4)

As a bed equipment for infant and infant safety management, It consists of a mattress with built-in sensor and an underlay for mattress support, To measure the safety and health information of infants and young children, Through the communication network, Information about infants and young children or emergency alerts, System and service to monitor According to claim 1, wherein the infant and child care bed equipment, Built-in weight sensor on each leg of the mattress support Infants and infants weigh the signal in real time, Recognize infant seizures and convulsions from weight change or motion signal analysis. Systems and services for detecting infants' safety or emergency situations According to claim 1, wherein the infant and child care bed equipment Non-contact ECG, temperature, humidity, dust concentration, sound signal sensor By measuring the signal from the sensor, Tell you how comfortable you are Detect crying and seizures of infants and young children Systems and services for detecting infants' safety or emergency situations According to claim 1, wherein the mattress of the infant and infant safety care bed equipment In the form of a middle grooved mattress Prevents the child from falling over and has the ability to straighten the waist System and service composed of mattress with sensor for safety management

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