Title :
A trial of an improved sleep activity monitoring system with a bio-sensor for urine
Author :
Hanada, Eisuke ; Miyamoto, Mayumi ; Seo, Tatsuto ; Hata, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
Div. Med. Inf., Shimane Univ. Hosp., Izumo, Japan
Abstract :
We built a sleep activity monitoring system that can monitor the status and actions of the user of a hospital bed, such as leaving, sitting up, changing sides, or not moving on the bed. The system calculates the load on nine sensors under the mattress to monitor changes. This system was previously made exclusively for a bed produced by Voelker GmbH (Germany). For this trial, we adapted the system to another company´s beds and added a system to prevent bedwetting or falls when leaving the bed to urinate by attaching a wearable bio-sensor.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biosensors; body sensor networks; patient monitoring; sleep; Voelker GmbH; bedwetting; changing sides; falls; hospital bed; improved sleep activity monitoring system; leaving; mattress; sitting up; urine; wearable biosensor; Bars; Biomedical monitoring; Educational institutions; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensor systems; Bedwetting; Bio-sensor; Leaving bed; Patient falls;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics ??? Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2014.7034210