Multiple Respiration Monitoring by Stepped-FM UWB Sensor

Author

Sasaki, Eriko ; Kajiwara, Akihiro

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Environ. Eng., Univ. of Kitakyusyu, Fukuoka, Japan

fYear

2015

fDate

13-14 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

406

Lastpage

409

Abstract

The number of elderly singles and couples is increasing as the arriving of aging society. Therefore, health-care support is an important issue and a stepped-FM UWB sensor for respiration monitoring has been attracted much attention. In this paper, a stepped-FM UWB sensor with a direct-conversion receiver is presented and an estimation technique is suggested to suppress the large leakage which is produced in the RF Front-end due to a direct-conversion receiver. This paper also presents a simultaneous monitoring scheme for respiration monitoring with multiple persons and the performance is investigated by the measurement.

Keywords

assisted living; geriatrics; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; ultra wideband technology; aging society; direct conversion receiver; elderly couples; elderly singles; estimation technique; health care support; multiple respiration monitoring; stepped-FM UWB sensor; Antenna measurements; Biomedical monitoring; Calibration; Distance measurement; Frequency measurement; Monitoring; Receivers; direct-conversion receiver; health-care support; multiple persons; respiration monitoring; stepped-FM UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ghaziabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6022-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICT.2015.157

Filename

7078735