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

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

525

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649205

Filename

4649205