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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2018.21.3.382

Bed Side Monitoring System using Occupancy Sensor and Doppler Radar  

Kang, Byung Wuk (Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University)
Yoo, Sun Kook (Department of Medical Engineering, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.21, no.3, 2018 , pp. 382-390 More about this Journal
Abstract
A major accident occurring on the bed is falls that occur during at times when the care of nurses or protectors is inadequate, which is fatal to patients or the elderly. In particular, Enuresis or sleepiness caused by sleep apnea increases the risk of falls. Therefore, it is very important to detect falls and sleep apnea of patients without infringing privacy in the bed to patient's safety and accident prevention. In this paper, we reviewed the technologies developed for bed monitoring and implemented a non-intrusive monitoring system. The Occupancy Sensor allows the temperature of the bed and surrounding area to be extracted to enable track of the patient's motion. The Doppler Radar detects the patient's movements at normal times and the respiration state when patients have no movement during sleeping. It is specially designed for real-time monitoring of falling and respiration during sleeping through contactless multi-sensing while solving patient's privacy problems.
Keywords
Occupancy; Radar; Bed Monitoring; Respiration; Apnea; Non-intrusive Fall Detection; Contactless; Patient's Privacy;
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