Title :
Empirical study of remote respiration monitoring sensor using wideband system
Author :
Shimomura, Naoharu ; Otsu, M. ; Kajiwara, A.
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Environ. Eng., Univ. of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
Health-care support at home and care facilities is a very important issue in many developed countries because of the arrival of increasingly aging society. Respiration movement is one of very important vital signs which indicate daily health state of a person. This paper presents a signal strength based respiration sensor using wideband radio where a sample diversity scheme with a template correlation is suggested to continually detect the respiration rate for unconscious body movement while sleeping. In this paper, measurements were conducted for various bandwidths of 50 ~ 500MHz and the feasibility is discussed for several scenarios.
Keywords :
biomedical measurement; motion measurement; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; radiofrequency measurement; remote sensing; sensors; health care support; patient health state; remote respiration monitoring sensor; respiration movement; respiration rate detection; sample diversity scheme; signal strength based respiration sensor; sleeping; template correlation; unconscious body movement; vital signs; wideband radio; wideband system;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), 2012 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gold Coast, QLD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2392-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2391-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICSPCS.2012.6507976
