URI team developing smart wearable to monitor health of premature babies

TEST BED: ­Abdullah al Rumon, left, and Dr. Kunal Mankodiya, director of the Wearable Biosensing Lab at the University of Rhode Island, are part of a team developing a smart strap that can monitor the health condition of premature babies.
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH ­GRAHAM
TEST BED: ­Abdullah al Rumon, left, and Dr. Kunal Mankodiya, director of the Wearable Biosensing Lab at the University of Rhode Island, are part of a team developing a smart strap that can monitor the health condition of premature babies.
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH ­GRAHAM

Since the late 2010s, smartwatches and rings have exploded in popularity. Estimates claim nearly half of the U.S. population uses the likes of Apple Watches, Fitbits and Oura Rings to track health metrics, including heart and respiration rates, temperature, steps per day and calories burned. But researchers have been developing a new generation of wearable

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