Title :
Intra-body Temperature Monitoring Using a Biofeedback Solution
Author :
Caldeira, João M L P ; Moutinho, José A F ; Vaidya, Binod ; Lorenz, Pascal ; Rodrigues, Joel J P C
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
Abstract :
Body Area Sensor can enable healthcare monitoring in an unobtrusive way. Medical and healthcare research has been striving to find relationships between core body temperature at female genitals and certain health conditions, such as ovulation period. This paper presents a solution for intra-body temperature monitoring based on a new intra-body sensor, communication and desktop application tool. This new biosensor provides data collection that may be used to study the relation between temperature variations and women health conditions, such as, ovulation period (for both natural contraception and in vitro fertilization purposes) among others. The motivation for this work focuses on the creation of this e-Health solution that will fill the gap we realize in medical technology. The proposal was tested and validated by a medical team and it was concluded that this new biosensor performs perfectly.
Keywords :
biosensors; biothermics; body area networks; body sensor networks; health care; patient monitoring; temperature measurement; biofeedback solution; biosensor; body area sensor; core body temperature; e-Health solution; female genitals; health care monitoring; health care research; intrabody sensor; intrabody temperature monitoring; medical research; ovulation period; women health condition; Biological control systems; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; In vitro fertilization; Medical services; Medical tests; Performance evaluation; Proposals; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Biofeedback; Biosensor; Temperature Monitoring; Wireless sensor network; e-Health;
Conference_Titel :
eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, 2010. ETELEMED '10. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
St. Maarten
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5803-5
DOI :
10.1109/eTELEMED.2010.23