AU2020102194A4

AU2020102194A4 - Design and development of a smart suite for assisting the pregnant women

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Publication number: AU2020102194A4
Application number: AU2020102194A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Muthu G.; Karthikeyan K.; Thanigavelmurugan K.; Nalini Joseph L.; Kumutha R.; Arun S.; Kaliappan S.; Senthil Kumar S.; Mothilal T.; Balaji V.
Original assignee: G Muthu Dr; K Karthikeyan Dr; L Nalini Joseph Dr; R Kumutha Mrs; S Senthil Kumar Dr; T Mothilal Dr
Current assignee: G Muthu Dr; K Karthikeyan Dr; L Nalini Joseph Dr; R Kumutha Mrs; S Arun Dr; S Senthil Kumar Dr; T Mothilal Dr
Priority date: 2020-09-09
Filing date: 2020-09-09
Publication date: 2020-10-22
Anticipated expiration: 2028-09-09

Abstract

The invention relates to a suite that incorporates modern equipments to monitor the essential features of the fetus in the womb. The modern suite is made up of an elastic rubber or cotton in the form of a belt that is worn around the waist of the pregnant women to periodically monitor the vital features of the fetus through the one or more sensors, to store and to wirelessly transmit the said data of the baby in the womb to the health care units at regular intervals for the assessment of the fetus and mother health conditions from remote site, to remind the pregnant women regularly about the intake of liquid diets such as water and health drinks, consume nutritious foods and to perform physical exercises for a healthy baby and mother, to provide power to the various units of the said suite. To achieve the objective of the invention, the suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb comprises a garment with multiple provisions for accepting plurality of units to be worn around the waist of the mother with the said units placed under the belly; a controller with pre programmed information for periodically intimating the suite wearer about executing the essential activities; a plurality of detectors for detecting the vital features of the fetus inside the womb; a wireless communication module for transmitting the said detected information to the medical care unit and an energy source for supplying power to the multiple units placed inside the said suite. Appi.no. total sheets 3 Sheet no. 2 &E4-fQA i4 A 4DOCA- - A7)1 )2Iv~ -m~4-'-

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SMART SUITE FOR ASSISTING THE PREGNANT WOMEN Field of the Invention The present invention relates to real-time health monitoring systems of mother and fetus in the womb and more particularly, the present invention relates to a real-time, fetal monitoring system that can be comfortably worn by a monitored pregnant woman, by wearing a special garment, having at least one sensor that may be integrated into a suite or used as independently on the pouch in the suite and it is an integrated infrastructure for providing audible and visual alerts to maintain health, de-stress the mother and baby by playing the music and enable bi-directional communication by sending the vital information of the fetus to the medical care unit.

Background and prior art of the Invention

High-risk pregnancies are increasingly prevalent given the higher age at which women become pregnant and the ability to achieve pregnancies in women with high-risk comorbidities. Approximately 20-25% of all pregnancies are complicated to some degree, involving complications such as preterm delivery, fetal oxygen deficiency, fetal growth restriction and hypertension. Currently, there is no seamless, non-obtrusive monitoring system to continuously detect deviations in health status of the pregnant woman or the fetus.

First, there exists a limited accessibility to fetal monitoring. Currently, pregnant mothers must commute to either a physician's office or a designated fetal monitoring center and these centers are often difficult for patients to access. This means that the pregnant mother should take a trip to the hospital for a monitoring session which puts the burden of time and expense both on the mother and accompanying person(s) as well as the healthcare system. Therefore, with traditional systems monitoring of pregnant mothers, who are not categorized as high risk, is limited to a few times during course of pregnancy. For example, typical testing is on the order of 2 times every week during the last trimester. This leads potentially to reduced efficacy of monitoring in terms of missing critical incidents. Immobility of the traditional system also means that pregnant mothers in remote areas and/or in the underserved areas with limited access to the healthcare system (e.g., in the case of many developing countries) are not being tested at all.

Second, there is limited mobility of the patient during fetal monitoring. Pregnant mothers who undergo fetal monitoring require a minimum of 45 minutes and up to 4 hours for each monitoring session. During this time the patient must remain in a relaxed position (usually recumbent) connected to the recording device. Putting on and adjusting the position of fetal monitoring system sensors takes substantial amount of time (i.e., on the order of 10-20 minutes). Using the traditional wired fetal monitoring system, in case that the patient needs to move during the test (e.g. goes to bathroom or the like) the setup needs to be removed and placed back afterwards. This adds additional time and cost burden in the hospitals.

Third, there is a lack of remote accessibility to data for evaluation. Currently most cardiotographic devices do not have the capability of digital storage and transfer. The usual manner in which a fetal monitoring study occurs involves a paper tracing that is carried to the health care provider or Physician for interpretation, and then stored in the patient's medical record. Often the length of these strips exceeds the capacity for storage for clinical, private physician practices and even hospital systems. Additionally, the lack of digital data transferability means that interpreting the data is possible in only places that trained care providers (i.e. nurses or physicians) are accessible.

With the growing interest in wireless health technologies and their potential applications, efficient design and development of wearable medical devices is becoming unprecedentedly important to researchers in both academia and industry. See, e.g., R. Jafari, S. Ghiasi, and M. Sarrafzadeh, "Medical Embedded Systems," in Embedded System Design: Topics, Techniques and Trends, ser. IFIP Advances inInformation and Communication Technology, A. Rettberg, M. Zanella, R. DOner, A. Gerstlauer, and F. Rammig, Eds. Springer Boston, 2007, vol. 231, pp. 441-444. The main driving factors in designing this new generation of the health paradigm include cost, power consumption, and wearablility, with power consumption being the center of many research efforts due to its dramatic influence on other design objectives. See, e.g., C. Park, P. Chou, Y. Bai, R. Matthews, and A. Hibbs, "An Ultra-wearable, Wireless, Low Power ECG Monitoring System," in Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2006. BioCAS2006. IEEE, December 2006, pp. 241-244; P. Zappi, C. Lombriser, T. Stiefineier, E. Farella, D. Roggen, L. Benini, and G. Troster, "Activity Recognition From On-Body Sensors Accuracy-Power Trade-off By Dynamic Sensor Selection," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4913, p. 17, 2008; V. Leonov, P. Fiorini, S. Sedky, T. Torfs, and C. Van Hoof, "Thermoelectric Mems Generators as a Power Supply for a Body Area Network," vol. 1, June 2005, pp. 291-294; S. Xiao, A. Dhamdhere, V. Sivaraman, and A. Burdett, "Transmission Power Control in Body Area Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 37-48, 2009; and H. Ghasemzadeh and R. Jafari, "A Greedy Buffer Allocation Algorithm for Power Aware Communication in Body Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, ser. CODES/ISSS '10. New York, N.Y., USA: ACM, 2010, pp. 195-204.

An important angle of low-power design is development of efficient signal processing and data reduction algorithms that reduce computation load of the processing units, allowing low-power low-cost processors to be embedded with the wearable device. While much work has been done on designing signal processing algorithms for a variety of sensing modalities such as motion sensors (H. Ghasemzadeh, V. Loseu, and R. Jafari, "Structural Action Recognition in Body Sensor Networks: Distributed Classification Based on String Matching," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 425-435, 2010; A. Barth, M. Hanson, H. Powell, and J. Lach, "Tempo 3.1: A Body Area Sensor Network Platform for Continuous Movement Assessment," in Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2009. BSN 2009.Sixth International Workshop on, 2009, pp. 71-76.), Electrocardiography (D. Jun, X. Miao, Z. Hong-hai, and L. Wei-feng, "Wearable ECG Recognition and Monitor," in Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2005.Proceedings.18th IEEE Symposium on, June 2005, pp. 413-418; M. Ayat, K. Assaleh, and H. Al-Nashash, "Prototype of a Standalone Fetal ECG Monitor," in

Industrial Electronics Applications (ISIEA), 2010 IEEE Symposium on, 2010, pp. 617 622), and photo-plethysmogram sensors (J. Espina, T. Falck, J. Muehisteff, and X. Aubert, "Wireless Body Sensor Network for Continuous Cuff-less Blood Pressure Monitoring," in Medical Devices and Biosensors, 2006. 3rd IEEE/EMBS International Summer School on, 2006, pp. 11-15), ultrasonic signal processing for stringent constrained computing platforms has not been studied in the past.

Traditional ultrasound technologies have been used in a variety of application domains such as ultrasound imaging (E. J. Gussenhoven, C. E. Essed, C. T. Lancee, F. Mastik, P. Frietman, F. C. van Egmond, J. Reiber, H. Bosch, H. van Urk, J. Roelandt, and N. Bom, "Arterial Wall Characteristics Determined by Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging: An in vitro Study," Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 947-952, 1989, ACC Anniversary Seminar) to produce pictures of the inside of the body, blood flow monitoring (A. Azhim, J. Yamaguchi, Y. Hirao, Y. Kinouchi, H. Yamaguchi, K. Yoshizaki, S. Ito, and M. Nomura, "Monitoring Carotid Blood Flow and ECG for Cardiovascular Disease in Elder Subjects," in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005.27th Annual International Conference of the, 2005, pp. 5495-5498) to measure velocity of blood flow in different arteries for use in monitoring cardiovascular diseases, and Cardiotocography (C.-Y.Chen, J.-C.Chen, C. Yu, and C.-W. Lin, "A Comparative Study of a New Cardiotocography Analysis Program," in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009.Annual International Conference of the IEEE, September 2009, pp. 2567-2570) to measure fetal heart rate and assess the effect of uterine contractions on fetal heart rate. However, the main challenge in transition from traditional ultrasound technologies to wearable platforms is the demand for a very high computational power. Compared to the other sensing modalities, ultrasound signals require a relatively high sampling frequency, producing large volumes of data that need to be processed. For instance, in a blood flow monitoring application, relevant information may appear in the frequency band of 100-4200 Hz, which may require a sampling frequency of 10 kHz as used in Azhim, et al, above. Moreover, a minimum sampling rate of 1600 Hz for capturing fetal movements is suggested in C.-Y. Chen, J.-C.Chen, C. Yu, and C.-W. Lin, "A Comparative Study of a New Cardiotocography Analysis Program," in Engineering in

Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE, September 2009, pp. 2567-2570. The large volume of sampled ultrasonic signals needs to undergo fast signal conditioning algorithms in order to extract relevant information in real-time.

As to patents, Rapoport, U.S. Pat. No. 5,257,627, discloses a portable apparatus for the non-invasive, simultaneous, self-testing of fetal and maternal signals. It includes a user display to indicate that the device is operational, an ultrasonic system to detect fetal heart rate connected to said device, a detection system for maternal input signal connected to said device, wherein the device has signal processor for simultaneously processing fetal heart rate and maternal input signals, and also has a communication linking means for the simultaneous transmission of fetal heart rate and maternal input data to a remote output device.

Lewis et al., U.S. Pat. No. 6,115,624, discloses an intrauterine catheter device for monitoring fetal and/or maternal heart rate, including an elongate housing having proximal and distal portions, an array of ECG electrodes on the distal portion and one or more acoustic or other mechanical sensors on the distal portion. A pressure transducer may also be provided on the distal portion. Processor circuitry compares the ECG signal with the output signal of the acoustic sensor to derive fetal and/or maternal heart rate. An intrauterine catheter device is also provided, including a reference electrode on its distal portion, and an array of active electrodes spaced apart from one another on the distal portion. The device may also include a pressure transducer on the distal portion and processor circuitry coupled to the array of active electrodes and/or to the reference electrode for deriving fetal ECG from signals produced by the array of active electrodes. Alternatively, the array of electrodes and acoustic sensors may be provided on a flexible pad that may be secured to the abdomen of a pregnant mother. An intrauterine catheter device is also provided, including a plurality of lumens communicating with a differential pressure transducer provided on its distal portion, and having a zeroing switch on its proximal portion for resetting the pressure transducer in situ.

Powell et al., U.S. Patent Application No. 2006/0149597, makes the following statements in the patent. It is said to provide a data processing tool for the viewing of real-time, critical patient data on remote and/or mobile devices. It is said that the tool renders graphical data on the screen of the remote device in a manner that makes it practical for the health care provider to accurately and timely review the data for the purpose of making an informed decision about the condition of the patient. Charting control is established and implemented using the latest GDI+, GAPI and PDA drawing techniques. The charting components provide landscape support, an ability to overlay patient data and patient images, zoom in/zoom out, custom variable speed scrolling, split screen support, and formatting control. It is said that the methodology operates as an asynchronous application, without sacrificing processing time in the mobile/handheld device. The methodology allows the critical patient data to be streamed in real-time to the handheld device while conserving enough CPU power to simultaneously allow the end user to interact at will with the responsive display application. The methodology is structured using object oriented concepts and design patterns. Each logical tier of the methodology, from the data access objects and the charting control objects, to the user interface objects, is structured with precise interfaces. The methodology implements an IT management console that allows system managers to monitor the exchange of data between hospital systems and the primary database, including all patient data packets, notifications and alerts, connected remote devices.

Hayes-Gill et al., U.S. Pat. No. 7,532,923, it discloses apparatus for detecting the heart rate of a fetus. The apparatus includes at least two detectors for detecting heart beats of the fetus, each detector comprising at least two electrodes for detecting ECG signals. A processor, which is coupled to the detectors, is used to process the ECG signals received from each detector and determine the heart rate of the fetus.

James et al., U.S. Patent Application No. 2007/0213672 discloses a monitor for fetalbehavior by receiving ECG data from a set of electrodes attached to a material body. A waveform pre-processor identifies a succession of fetal ECG complex waveforms within the received data and a waveform processor determines differences in the processor succession of fetal ECG complex waveforms over time. An event logger determines from the determined differences a number of fetal movements during the period of time. Fetal spatial presentation and/or position within the uterus may also be determined from fetal ECG data acquired from a plurality of electrodes positioned on the maternal abdomen in a predetermined configuration. A number of fetal ECG complex waveforms are identified within the data, and each of the waveforms is compared with a set of predetermined fetal ECG complex templates ascribed to the predetermined electrode configuration to determine a template that best matches the identified fetal ECG waveforms.

Hayes-Gill et al., WO 2001/004147, it discloses a system for detecting uterine activity uses cutaneous electrodes on the maternal abdomen to obtain electrophysiological signals that can be used to obtain fetal and maternal heart rate. The apparatus includes a first input for receiving electrical signals from the cutaneous electrodes and a second input for receiving movement signals indicative of a movement of the maternal body from a movement detector. A signal processor separates a uterine electromyogram signal from fetal and maternal heart rate signals and filters out motion artifacts from the electromyogram using the movement signals. An output presents electrohysterogram (EHG) data from the uterine electromyogram signal.

A need, therefore, exists for a suite having an integrated information infrastructure which can be incorporated or fashioned into a wearable garment and which includes a flexible infrastructure for collecting, processing, alerting, soothing, reminding, transmitting and receiving information concerning a wearer of the garment. It is to the provision of such a fabric or garment with an integrated information infrastructure to which the present invention is one aspect directed.

Summary of the Invention

The invention relates to a suite that incorporates modern equipments to monitor the essential features of the fetus in the womb. The modern suite is made up of an elastic rubber or cotton in the form of a belt that is worn around the waist of the pregnant women to periodically monitor the vital features of the fetus through the one or more sensors, to store and to wirelessly transmit the said data of the baby in the womb to the health care units at regular intervals for the assesment of the fetus and mother health conditions from remote site, to remind the pregnant women regularly about the intake of liquid diets such as water and health drinks, consume nutritious foods and to perform physical exercises for a healthy baby and mother, to provide power to the various units of the said suite.

To achieve the objective of the invention, the suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb comprises a garment with multiple provisions for accepting plurality of units to be worn around the waist of the mother with the said units placed under the belly; a controller with pre-programmed information for periodically intimating the suite wearer about executing the essential activities; a plurality of detectors for detecting the vital features of the fetus inside the womb; a wireless communication module for transmitting the said detected information to the medical care unit and an energy source for supplying power to the multiple units placed inside the said suite.

Object of the Invention

It is a primary objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite in the form of a belt suitable to be worn around the waist of the pregnant women in such a fashion that the vital features of the fetus are collected.

It is a secondary objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite that incorporates either on its surface or planted internally with multiple provisions to accept the plurality of sensors.

It is a tertiary objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite that comprises at least one of an UV and IR sensor for detecting, measuring and storing the vital factors such the heart beat and respiratory rate of the fetus and mother along with the uterus contraction factor of the mother at regular intervals.

It is a fourth objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite that stores the measured factors internally and also wirelessly transmits the said vital data to the remote medical care units for their assessment.

It is a fifth objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite that comprises a wireless communication module including wireless transceivers for transmitting the signals to a remote location and for correspondingly receiving the data from the transmitter.

It is a sixth objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite that comprises a central processor that is configured to alert the mother either through audible sounds or through visual impacts about the timely consumption of the health drinks and nutritious foods and to perform physical exercises for the well-being of the mother and the fetus in the womb.

It is a seventh objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite that comprises a renewable or non-renewable power source that supplies power to the multiple components in the said suite.

It is a final objective of the present invention to provide a smart suite in the form of a belt that is made up of an elastic and non-irritating material to gauge the well-being of the fetus and mother from remote site and to play soothing music upon detecting higher levels of stress for the mother and fetus.

There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto. The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.

Brief description of the invention

Fig.1 illustrates the front view of the suite in the form of a belt.

Fig.2(a) illustrates the position of the suite on the belly of the pregnant women that incorporates the sensors, controllers, wireless transceivers and power source.

Fig.2(b) illustrates the pictorial representation of the suite on the target people.

Detailed description of the invention

An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a belt that may be worn around a pregnant woman's abdomen. A first holder is attached to the belt and a second attaching facility is attached to the belt. Each of the first holder and the second attaching means are complementary wherein the first holder and the second attaching means may retain the belt around the pregnant woman's abdomen. A monitor is attached to the belt to monitor a heart beat of the in utero baby and uterine contractions. A primary holder is coupled to the panel and a secondary attachment means is coupled to the panel. The diameter of the belt is increased or decreased by the elasticity of the belt. The said suite in the form of a belt is made up of elastic material such as rubber and also utilizes soft comfortable material such as cotton for rendering a sense of comfort to the wearer which provides the necessary elasticity to the suite and also expands and contracts around the waist of the user.

As best illustrated in Figs. 1 through 3, the suite garment generally comprises a belt that has a first end, a second end, a back side and a front side. The belt is elongated between the first end and the second end wherein the belt may be worn around an abdomen of a pregnant woman. The belt may be comprised of a resiliently stretchable material. A lining is provided that has a front surface and a back surface and the front surface is removably attached to the back side of the belt. The lining is substantially coextensive with the belt and the back surface may abut the pregnant woman's abdomen. The lining may be comprised of a resiliently stretchable material.

The suite of our present invention is wearable and, thus, provides a wearable information infrastructure integrated within the suite that has hitherto been typically resident in a computer. When fitted with, or connected to, a data collector(s) such as, but not limited to, a sensor for monitoring body physical signs and connected to a data transmitter or processing unit, as described in detail below, our wearable suite provides information pathways that allow the IR and UV sensor to collect vital information about the fetus and mother and provide such information to the transmitter or processor, and vice versa. In this context, the information infrastructure of our suite can manage the transfer of data between the sensor and the transmitter or processing unit. Since the sensor can be considered a "hardware peripheral", our wearable suite, which can be fashioned into a garment or belt, having an integrated information infrastructure can be conceived of as a "wearable motherboard."

Fig.1 illustrates the front view of the suite in the form of a belt.The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb comprises a garment with multiple provisions for accepting plurality of units to be worn around the waist of the mother with the said units placed under the belly; a controller with pre programmed information for periodically intimating the suite wearer about executing the essential activities; a plurality of detectors for detecting the vital features of the fetus inside the womb; a wireless communication module for transmitting the said detected information to the medical care unit and an energy source for supplying power to the multiple units placed inside the said suite.

The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as illustrated in the figs. wherein the said removably wearable garment is preferably made up of an elastic and light weight comfortable material such as rubber, cotton for providing irritation less feel and the said garment comprises at least four provisions for accommodating a central processor, a plurality of detectors, a wireless communication module and a periodic regular activity reminder for the wearer of the suite.

The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as illustrated in figs.1-3 wherein the said garment includes plurality of detectorscomprising at least IR and UV sensors positioned at pre-defined locations for sensing and detecting the conditions of the vital features of the fetus such as heart beats, respirational rate and EMG at regular intervals which are stored in the memory and transmitted to the health care professionals periodically for expert analysis and the said garment includes plurality of central controller that is configured to periodically remind the garment wearer to i) Consume liquid diets and water at regular intervals for preventing dehydration.

ii) Perform requisite physical activities at pre-determined periods for maintaining an active gestation and to safe guard the health of the fetus in the womb.

iii) Periodically intake nutritious diets and medicines for maintaining the health conditions of the mother and the fetus in the womb.

The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as illustrated in figs. wherein the said alerts and reminders are audio, visual, sensory and voice based intimations and the said sensors incorporated in the suite detect the physical and mental stress levels of the wearer and activates the pre recorded musical notes at audible frequency for normalizing the said condition upon detecting the stress exceeding a pre-determined threshold.

The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb comprising the said wireless communication module is configured to transmit the signals from the plurality of IR and UV sensors and detectors to the corresponding wireless receiving device of the medical experts at remote locations for regular diagnosis and the said energy source is renewable power source with extended life and further comprises a secondary back up energy source as standby.

With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.

Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word "comprising" is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article "a" does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.

Claims

We Claim

1) A suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb comprises

i) A garment with multiple provisions for accepting plurality of units to be worn around the waist of the mother with the said units placed under the belly.

ii) A controller with pre-programmed information for periodically intimating the suite wearer about executing the essential activities.

iii) A plurality of detectors for detecting the vital features of the fetus inside the womb.

iv) A wireless communication module for transmitting the said detected information to the medical care unit.

v) An energy source for supplying power to the multiple units placed inside the said suite.

2) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 1 wherein the said removably wearable garment is preferably made up of an elastic and light weight comfortable material such as rubber, cotton for providing irritation less feel.

3) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 1 wherein the said garment comprises at least four provisions for accommodating a central processor, a plurality of detectors, a wireless communication module and a periodic regular activity reminder for the wearer of the suite.

4) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 1 wherein the said garment includes plurality of detectors comprising at least IR and UV sensors positioned at pre-defined locations for sensing and detecting the conditions of the vital features of the fetus such as heart beats, respirational rate and EMG at regular intervals which are stored in the memory and transmitted to the health care professionals periodically for expert analysis.

) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 1 wherein the said garment includes plurality of central controller that is configured to periodically remind the garment wearer to

iv) Consume liquid diets and water at regular intervals for preventing dehydration.

v) Perform requisite physical activities at pre-determined periods for maintaining an active gestation and to safe guard the health of the fetus in the womb.

vi) Periodically intake nutritious diets and medicines for maintaining the health conditions of the mother and the fetus in the womb.

6) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 5 wherein the said alerts and reminders are audio, visual, sensory and voice based intimations.

7) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 4 wherein the said sensors detect the physical and mental stress levels of the wearer and activates the pre-recorded musical notes at audible frequency for normalizing the said condition upon detecting the stress exceeding a pre-determined threshold.

8) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 1 wherein the said wireless communication module is configured to transmit the signals from the plurality of IR and UV sensors and detectors to the corresponding wireless receiving device of the medical experts at remote locations for regular diagnosis.

9) The suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in claim 1 wherein the said energy source is renewable power source with extended life and further comprises a secondary back up energy source as standby.

10)A method of manufacture of the suite to assist pregnant ladies and to continuously monitor the fetus growth in the womb as claimed in any of the preceding claims.

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