An activity monitoring system for detecting movement by a person lying on a bed

Author

Hanada, E. ; Seo, TaeWon ; Hata, Hiroki

Author_Institution

Div. of Med. Inf., Shimane Univ. Hosp., Izumo, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

To protect against falls by patients leaving bed, we developed a system for beds that detects a variety of movements. Our system consists of sensor bars that use switches common to PC keyboards, a processor, and a communication device. This paper reports an examination of the effectiveness of the system in which we found that the functions worked well. The system is ready for commercialization. We plan to improve the system to fit the beds of other companies and to fit Japanese "Futon".

Keywords

accident prevention; biomechanics; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; patient monitoring; programmable logic devices; switches; telemedicine; Japanese futon; activity monitoring system; bed sensor bars; communication device; lying person movement detection; patient fall prevention; processor; sensor bar switch; Bars; Biomedical monitoring; Hospitals; Monitoring; Printed circuits; Rails; Read only memory; Bed; fall prevention; inpatient; sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics ?? Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), 2013. ICCEBerlin 2013. IEEE Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1411-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2013.6697968

Filename

6697968