A Prototype for Realtime Monitoring of Fetal Health using a Pressure sensitive material and Sensor based Belt

Monitoring wellbeing of the fetus is one of the challenges faced by obstetrics. The fetal movement will determine the health and growth of fetus for which different techniques have been explored like heart rate monitoring, kick pattern, and other health. With the improvement in technology, several remote monitoring techniques are introduced like accelerometer-based system in form of body worn or fetal kick detection based, etc. All the techniques have been discussed in the paper. Further, the paper presents a new prototype of the fetal kick detection device. The real-time monitoring of fetal kick will be analyzed using a belt worn by the patient consisting of pressure sensitive material and various sensors for detecting the fetal distress based on machine learning mechanism. In the future, the design will be developed and the belt will be analyzed in real time scenario.