TY - CHAP

T1 - Unobtrusive Measurement of Vital Signs Through Ultra-Wideband Sensing in the Domain of AAL

AU - Busch, Björn-Helge

AU - Welge, Ralph

N1 - Conference code: 10

PY - 2013/2/13

Y1 - 2013/2/13

N2 - Against the background of Ambient Assisted Living, this article proposes a new kind of unobtrusive, non-stigmatizing and continuous acquisition of vital signs as respiratory rate and related features on the basis of ultra-wide-band radar sensing. Through the runtime analysis of the reflection data, surrogating mechanical signals e.g. the excursion of the thorax are detected and linked with physiological values like the breathing rate. After a brief introduction to the application context including an explanation of specific user demands and restrictions of current solutions of the telemedicine, physical fundamentals of measurement and the utilized electronics, the applied principles of spatial and temporal data mining are described. Finally, experiments including real measurements with the subsequent discussion of the measurement results provide an outlook to the capabilities of our approach and grant information about open issues and the steps in research.

AB - Against the background of Ambient Assisted Living, this article proposes a new kind of unobtrusive, non-stigmatizing and continuous acquisition of vital signs as respiratory rate and related features on the basis of ultra-wide-band radar sensing. Through the runtime analysis of the reflection data, surrogating mechanical signals e.g. the excursion of the thorax are detected and linked with physiological values like the breathing rate. After a brief introduction to the application context including an explanation of specific user demands and restrictions of current solutions of the telemedicine, physical fundamentals of measurement and the utilized electronics, the applied principles of spatial and temporal data mining are described. Finally, experiments including real measurements with the subsequent discussion of the measurement results provide an outlook to the capabilities of our approach and grant information about open issues and the steps in research.

KW - Informatics

KW - Ambient assisted living

KW - Signal processing

KW - Telemedicine

KW - Timeseries analysis

KW - Ultra-wideband radar

KW - Wavelet denoising

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84883897998&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.2316/P.2013.791-161

DO - 10.2316/P.2013.791-161

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-0-88986-942-4

VL - 10

T3 - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2013

SP - 288

EP - 294

BT - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2013

A2 - Boccaccini, A.R.

PB - ACTA Press

T2 - 10th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering - BioMed 2013

Y2 - 13 February 2013 through 15 February 2013

ER -