TY - CHAP

T1 - Unobtrusive Respiratory Rate Detection within Homecare Scenarios

AU - Busch, Björn-Helge

AU - Welge, Ralph

N1 - Conference code: 6

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

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 - Reflection Pattern

KW - Soft Thresholding

KW - Nasal Prong

KW - Fast Wavelet Transform

KW - Temporal Data Mining

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_5

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_5

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-642-37987-1

T3 - Advanced Technologies and Societal Change

SP - 61

EP - 78

BT - Ambient Assisted Living

A2 - Wichert, Reiner

A2 - Klausing, Helmut

PB - Springer

T2 - 6. AAL-Kongress

Y2 - 22 January 2013 through 23 January 2013

ER -