premature babies have been born worldwide since you started watching this screen.
At 13.4 million preterm births a year, World Health Organization
We designed this incubator for them.
Biomedical Engineering Department
Smart NeonatalIncubator
It watches the baby every second, and acts on its own before anyone is too late.
Design of a Smart Neonatal Incubator with AI-based Vital Signs Analysis and IoT Remote Monitoring
Ahmed Ihsan Mohammed Ali and Zaid Hayder Saad
Supervised by Asst. Lec. Ghufran Basim Medb
The baby on top.
The heat in the middle.
The electronics far below.
We split the incubator into three floors so no high voltage or direct heat comes near the baby. Power paths are separate too: 24 V for the heater, 12 V for the fans, and 5 V for control.
Six senses that never sleep
- MLX90614Baby skin temperatureInfrared, without touching the skin.
- SHT31Incubator temperature and humidityThe heater and humidifier respond to it.
- SGP40Air qualityDetects volatile organic compounds in the chamber.
- MAX30102Heart rate and oxygenPulse rate and blood oxygen saturation.
- AD8232ElectrocardiogramA live ECG signal on the screen.
- MicrophoneInfant soundPicks up crying and sounds inside the incubator.
From sensor to the nurse’s phone in two seconds
- 1ESP12E reads and decidesEvery second, and drives the heater, humidifier and alarm itself.
- 2Sends to Raspberry Pi 5Every two seconds, as JSON.
- 3Shown on three screens at onceThe incubator display, a web browser and the Android app.
No internet. The incubator runs its own network, INCUBATOR_AP.
The decision waits for no one
On below 35.7°C, off at 36.0°C, so it never flickers between the two.
On whenever humidity falls below 60%.
Danger only: baby temperature ≤ 35.5°C or ≥ 38°C.
And this is not a drawing.
This is the incubator we built, and these are real readings from it during testing.
All eight project objectives were met
Next: AI that learns from the collected data to analyse infant crying and catch abnormal conditions early, PID control for finer temperature, and a database for reports.
An academic prototype. It needs calibration and medical safety certification before any clinical use.
We’d love your questionsabout any part of it
Ahmed Ihsan Mohammed Ali and Zaid Hayder Saad
University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, College of Engineering