Title :
Intelligent monitoring systems: smart room for patient´s suffering from somnambulism
Author :
Bhattacharya, Suvojit S Bhattacharya S.
Author_Institution :
IIIT, Hyderabad, India
fDate :
6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Somnambulism is a sleep disorder characterized by walking or other activity while seemingly still asleep. The sleep walking activity may include simply sitting up and appearing awake while actually asleep, getting up and walking around, or complex activities such as moving furniture, going to the bathroom, dressing and undressing, and similar activities. Someone might even drive a car while actually asleep. For the simplicity and convenience of the project we have restricted our occupants environment to a single room, which we call a "smart room". We consider that the user is an adult who is suffering from somnambulism. Our intention is to prevent the occupant to move out of his room as well as monitor his movement after he\´s gone to bed, if the patient seems to move out then immediately inform the caretaker about it as well as try and wake up the patient from the sleep in a modest way so that it doesn\´t come up as a shock to him, all this needs to be done by a smart responsive system which would be embedded in the patients room. This system is designed to work on the principles of assistive technology (technology used to assist caretakers)
Keywords :
alarm systems; computerised monitoring; intelligent sensors; patient monitoring; sleep; telemedicine; alarm generator; application program; assistive technology; intelligent monitoring systems; magnetic sensor; occupancy sensors; parallel port; precautionary measures; pressure sensor; sleepwalking; smart responsive system; smart room; somnambulism; working environment; Automatic control; Electric shock; Eyes; Injuries; Intelligent systems; Legged locomotion; Medical control systems; Patient monitoring; Space technology; Windows;
Conference_Titel :
Microtechnologies in Medicine & Biology 2nd Annual International IEEE-EMB Special Topic Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madison, WI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7480-0
DOI :
10.1109/MMB.2002.1002340