7 months ago
Indian Engineers Create Life-Saving Wearable for Newborns
Indian engineers have created a special sock-like device called NemoCare Raksha to help monitor newborn babies.
This device is worn on the baby's foot and checks important signs like heart rate, breathing, and oxygen levels.
It sends this information to nurses so they can quickly help if something is wrong.
The device is designed to work in places where there aren't many doctors or expensive machines, like small hospitals and government clinics.
It has already helped over 20,000 babies in India.
The engineers got the idea after seeing how hard it is to take care of newborns, especially those born too early.
They worked with doctors and hospitals to make sure the device works well and is easy to use.
The device is also being improved with artificial intelligence to predict when a baby might get sick.
This invention is making it easier and cheaper to take care of newborns, especially those who are born early or are very small.
NemoCare Raksha is a wearable neonatal monitoring system designed for resource-constrained healthcare settings.
The device measures critical physiological parameters including heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, and body temperature.
It wirelessly transmits data to a central monitoring platform, allowing a single nurse to monitor multiple babies simultaneously.
The system has been used to monitor over 20,000 newborns across India since its launch in 2022.
NemoCare is developing an AI-enabled neonatal analytics platform to predict the onset of illness and long-term complications.
- Who
- Engineers Manoj Sanker and Pratyusha Pareddy under their startup NemoCare Wellness
- What
- Developed a wearable neonatal monitoring system called NemoCare Raksha
- Where
- India, with deployments in Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Punjab
- When
- Launched in 2022, with development starting in 2017
- Why
- To address the lack of affordable, scalable monitoring solutions for newborns in resource-constrained healthcare settings
Key facts
- Device Name
- NemoCare Raksha
- Developers
- Manoj Sanker and Pratyusha Pareddy
- Startup
- NemoCare Wellness
- Parameters Monitored
- Heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature, heart rate variability, perfusion index
- Newborns Monitored
- Over 20,000
- Deployment Locations
- Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab
- Funding
- Rs 1 crore
- Patents
- Multiple Indian patents, US FDA approval pending





