About the project
Newlife project is aiming to develop innovative non-invasive technologies for gathering vital data on mothers and babies, and build cloud-based solutions for their presentation, securing life in its most vulnerable phase. The Newlife consortium members will research how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) can be used to fully exploit novel technologies and solutions. For clinical acceptance, the developed solutions need to be seamlessly integrated into clinical workflows with proper data integration, security, safety, and medical qualification.
Newlife will develop digital healthcare solutions for remote screening and early detection of pregnancy risk factors, with an aim to bring digital revolution to pediatric and obstetric care. Digital health ecosystems, focused on digital platforms, health monitoring wearables and devices, applications, and services, will empower individuals to improve their health and medical professionals to take preventive actions.
The technologies and solutions developed are demonstrated in five use cases for both hospitals and personalized monitoring in-home environments.
Use case 1
Pregnancy & parent companion
UC lead: Cuviva
A participatory and engaging pregnancy and parent companion mobile application for the pregnant woman will be developed in this Use case. The risks will be analysed and detected using sensor data analysis.
Use case 2
Smart garment for monitoring pregnancies & complications
UC lead: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
This multiple-parameter solution is able to distinguish between maternal and fetal vital signs. It consists of single or multiple reusables such as wearables for monitoring vital parameters and a sustainable, sensorized garment and a set of standalone wearable sensing systems. The solutions will be coupled with additional analytical tools testing for pre-eclampsia and micro-needle patch for glucose monitoring.
Use case 3
Fetal monitoring patch for high-risk pregnancies
UC lead: Philips Electronics BV
An innovative ultrasound fetal monitoring patch for high-risk pregnancies will be developed in this Use case. The ultrasound patch will extend the simple heartbeat monitoring functionality of currently available fetal monitoring applications with real time and continuous imaging of the fetus, both at home and hospital environments.
Use case 4
Newborn monitoring with
smart clothes
UC lead: Teiimo GmbH
In this Use case, solutions for comfortable monitoring of newborn will be developed. The solutions will be using various sensors integrated into textiles, such as the baby’s body suit and a cap.
Use case 5
Newborn monitoring — wellbeing
in bed
UC lead: University of Turku
This Use case approaches Remote Infant Monitoring (RIM) via two complementary approaches: 1) Measuring the motion of the bed on which the infant is sleeping, and 2) Measuring the changes in chest motion and blood volume via remote sensing.