An intelligent non-contact wireless monitoring system for vital signs and motion detection

Author

Hu, W. ; Lie, D.Y.C. ; Kakade, M.U. ; Ichapurapu, R. ; Mane, S. ; Lopez, J. ; Li, Y. ; Li, C. ; Banister, R.E. ; Dentino, A. ; Nguyen, T. ; Zupancic, S. ; Griswold, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

2010

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

194

Abstract

An intelligent non-contact wireless patient monitoring system is presented in this paper. The monitoring system is capable of measuring the vital signs (respiration rate and heart beat) and detecting patients´ motion without physically contacting them by using a miniature Doppler radar sensor system. The system can provide all-round near-real-time 24/7 monitoring, which can be used in hospitals and homes to protect patients as a first line of defense system for wireless acute-care and wireless assisted-living.

Keywords

Doppler radar; intelligent sensors; medical signal detection; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; heart beat; intelligent noncontact wireless monitoring system; miniature Doppler radar sensor system; motion detection; patient monitoring; patient motion; respiration rate; vital sign detection; wireless acute-care; wireless assisted-living; Antennas; Biomedical monitoring; Demodulation; Irrigation; Mixers; Monitoring; Phase measurement; Doppler radar; noncontact monitoring system; vital signs; wireless acute-care; wireless assisted living;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Science and Engineering (ICSSE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6472-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSE.2010.5551795

Filename

5551795