Abstract
The article summarizes on-going research on vital signs and motor activity monitoring based on radar sensors embedded in wheelchairs, walkers and crutches for in home rehabilitation. Embedded sensors, conditioning circuits, real-time platforms that perform data acquisition, auto-identification, pr
Highlights
The health system all over the world has been drastically changing moving from acute health delivery to prevention, from secondary healthcare delivery to primary care and to home care, from patient healthcare delivery to wellness
Our team is currently exploring the viability of a system for in home rehabilitation combining low-cost smart sensors installed in a wheelchair, walker, bed or chair and a wearable device attached to the wrist of the patient
Considering the necessity to sense the motor activity of a patient during the training session, we propose the use of a FSK/FM-Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler radar (IVS-162 from InnoSenT) as one of the main components of smart objects that integrate an assistive environment for the people with less mobility or people with long-term health condition
Summary
The health system all over the world has been drastically changing moving from acute health delivery to prevention, from secondary healthcare delivery to primary care and to home care, from patient healthcare delivery to wellness. Our team is currently exploring the viability of a system for in home rehabilitation combining low-cost smart sensors installed in a wheelchair, walker, bed or chair and a wearable device attached to the wrist of the patient. They are parts of a pervasive computation architecture that delivers diagnostics and decisions in autonomous form based on performance measures (process and outcomes measures) conducted with well-established instruments (questionnaire, physical examination) used in rehabilitation and integrated with new methods and technologies that produce data on physiological and motor activity in an unobtrusive way.
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