Development of an unconstrained activity monitoring system

Author

Han, Jonghee ; Sohn, Ryanghee ; Park, Kwang Suk

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch., Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

39

Abstract

Monitoring movements can be helpful in the treatment of patients with movement disorders. The unconstrained activity monitoring system (U-AMS) was developed to estimate the movement disorder. It measures the accelerations of body segments. The hardware consists of two biaxial accelerometers to construct three dimensional system, microprocessor, RS232 and flash memory. It was cased by small box. Due to the small size and the comfort, this system does not interfere with daily activity. By using this system, the daily activity of patient´s body could be monitored. It functions as the electronic note to record the movement information.

Keywords

acceleration measurement; biomechanics; biomedical electronics; computerised monitoring; medical computing; patient monitoring; patient treatment; RS232; biaxial accelerometers; body segment accelerations; electronic note; flash memory; microprocessor; movement disorders; movement information recording; movement monitoring; patient treatment; unconstrained activity monitoring system; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical monitoring; Data analysis; Frequency synchronization; Hardware; Image analysis; Patient monitoring; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering, 2003. IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7943-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APBME.2003.1302572

Filename

1302572