A Smart Cradle System to Monitor Infants for Healthcare Baby Wards Based on IoT and Blockchain

Abstract

In countries like India, stealing of newborn babies is common now. Despite the CCTV Cameras installed on the healthcare baby centers premises left police with lack of solid evidence to zero on the person who stole the infant. Moreover, there are so many babies who are under supervision in the baby ward. It is difficult for the healthcare center staff to track each and every infant for changing their wet nappies, which leads to severe infection and rashes. However, with the help of emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain Technology (BT) can provide a solution, as these are the interrelated computing technologies which provides the ability to share the data on a network without any human interference. In this research article the authors have proposed a solution based on IoT and BT for monitoring the infants or toddlers. This proposed solution will help to reduce the burden of parents and healthcare staff by enabling the features of security and alarm systems.