An ICT integrated approach to monitor and manage pregnancy development

The project ICT4MOMs aims at realizing a novel pregnancy remote monitoring ICT service, based on the integration of wearable sensors and devices, connected through a smartphone app with an ob-gyn clinical center.

Although pregnancy by itself should not be considered a life-threatening event, the antepartum period is usually considered a very critical time window for both mothers and fetuses. ICT4MOMs integrates technologies and medical knowledge with new signal and data analysis methodologies to monitor and predict the condition of women and fetuses during pregnancy.

Starting from the assumption that continuous tracking of pregnancy evolution in time is the key characteristic to properly address maternal and fetal wellbeing, this project proposes a novel approach to redefine pregnancy monitoring with the objective to overcome the “acute and sporadic care” that is the nowadays adopted in clinical pregnancy controls.

To achieve such an innovative design, the Research Units share personal expertise in prenatal pathophysiology, technology, and advanced data analysis to develop a novel personalized pregnancy control system, able to work in real-time and in a home environment. The monitoring architecture is based on the following pillars: telemedicine, wearable body sensors, integrated systems, data mining, personalized medicine, and predictive analytics.