Title :
Automatic home care system for monitoring HR/RR during sleep
Author :
Zhu, Xin ; Chen, Wenxi ; Tang, Zunyi ; Nemoto, Tetsu ; Wei, Daming
Author_Institution :
Graduate Department of Information Systems, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima 965-8580, Japan
Abstract :
This paper described an automatic home care system for monitoring HR/RR during sleep. Pressure signal is measured with a completely unconstrained pressure sensor beneath a pillow; then the signal is digitalized and the data are transmitted to a remote server using TCP/IP via a netbox. The data are processed and analyzed with a wavelet-based algorithm to obtain the heart rate and respiration rhythm during sleep. Through analyzing 180 days´ data obtained from a female subject, it was found that this system can be used for daily monitoring heart rate and respiration rhythm during sleep and evaluating the quality of sleep at home.
Keywords :
Algorithm design and analysis; Computerized monitoring; Data analysis; Heart rate; Pressure measurement; Remote monitoring; Rhythm; Sleep; TCPIP; Wavelet analysis; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Electrocardiography; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Home Care Services; Humans; Polysomnography; Reproducibility of Results; Respiratory Function Tests; Respiratory Mechanics; Sensitivity and Specificity; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649205
