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In this paper, we present the application of wireless sensor technology and the advantages it will inherently have for neonatal care and monitoring at Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). An electrocardiography (ECG) readout board and a wireless transceiver module developed by IMEC at the Holst Centre in the Netherlands are embedded in the proposed wireless sensor systems in combination with the...
Our design uses a low-power laser reflection mark to detect the chest fluctuation of a patient's breath. If the breath rate is abnormal, a warning message is sent to the hospital by the embedded system.
In this paper we use both an embedded system and double Webcams to design an embedded monitor system for breath detection (EMSFBD) which monitors and records the patient's breath in the dark and sends the information to a specific server through the Internet. Our design uses image processing methods to monitor and record human breath fluctuation and to calculate the breath rate. If the breath rate...
In this paper we use both an embedded system and double Webcams to design an embedded monitor system for breath detection (EMSFBD) which monitors and records the patient's breath and sends the information to a specific server through the Internet. Our design uses image processing methods to monitor and record human breath fluctuation and to calculate the breath rate. If the breath rate is too low,...
Blood oxygen saturation is one of the key parameters for health monitoring of premature infants at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a design of a wearable wireless blood saturation monitoring system. Reflectance pulse oxymeter based on Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) techniques are applied for enhancing the flexibility of measurements at different...
Frequent and high-risk fall accidents of the elders have become a serious medical and social problem. In this paper, a wireless automatic human fall detection device based on tri-axis accelerator is designed and realized; and a novel method to distinguish fall events from other daily activities is proposed also, including multi-impact falls and rolling down falls. In the real application, the device...
Objective: Cardiovascular variability analysis, such heart rate variability or blood pressure variability, provides important information about activities of various regulatory mechanisms for the cardiovascular system. Aim of the present study is to use the laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) measurement to study the correspondent changes between the beat-to-beat microcirculatory blood flow (MBF) and its...
Health monitoring is crucial for the survival of the ill and fragile infants admitted at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in a hospital. However, the adhesive electrodes and wires cause discomfort to the patients and hamper the parent-child interaction. In this paper, we propose the application of wireless transmission technology for neonatal monitoring at NICU. To demonstrate the design concept,...
Critically ill new born babies admitted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are extremely tiny and vulnerable to external disturbance. Smart Jacket proposed in this paper is the vision of a wearable unobtrusive continuous monitoring system realized by body sensor networks (BSN) and wireless communication. The smart jacket aims for providing reliable health monitoring as well as a comfortable...
Critically ill new born babies are extremely tiny and vulnerable to external disturbance. Non-invasive health monitoring with body sensor networks is crucial for the survival of these neonates and the quality of their life later on. A key question for health monitoring with body sensor networks is how to obtain reliable electrical power for the sensors, signal amplifiers, filters and transmitters...
Telemedicine & Telecare aided by wireless sensor network (WSN) has recently become a health-caring trend in the future. However, the low data rate of WSN limited the acceptable quality of service. Researches [1-6] adopted ZigBee-based WSN to implement a platform and/or a telecare system. However, the capacity problem due to low data rate characteristic has not been addressed. Our research proposed...
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