An inexpensive and accurate fetal heart rate monitoring system has been developed by researchers in India using Bluetooth technology. The study will appear in the International Journal of Computers in Healthcare. Fetal phonocardiography is the modern day version of the stethoscope in ante-natal baby care. However, Vijay Chourasia of the LNM Institute of Information Technology in Jaipur and Anil Kumar Tiwari of the Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan, in Jodhpur, adapted this system to use Bluetooth.
