Abstract
Recent works have shown that acoustic signals can be leveraged to perform respiration monitoring with high accuracy and low energy consumption. Since smartphones, smart speakers, and many other IoT devices are already equipped with microphones and speakers, it is convenient to implement the acoustic sensing solutions on those devices. However, the existing technologies require the speaker to transmit certain ultrasonic signals to detect respiration. Although these signals are inaudible to adults, they are audible to children and pets and they may even have negative impacts on plants. In this article, instead of using ultrasonic signals, we are trying to leverage audible signals in daily lives, e.g., music or broadcasting audios, to detect human respiration. We design a respiration detection system which derives the respiration rate by continuously estimates the channel impulse response (CIR) using music and broadcast signals. We study the intersymbol interference (ISI) brought by the randomness of music and broadcast signal and give our strategy to minimize the interference. We also propose several techniques to resolve some practical issues, such as the multipath effect and sampling frequency offset between the speaker and the microphone. Extensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of our system. The result shows that our system can achieve high respiration detection accuracy with the mean error of less than 0.5 BPM when different audio signals are used.
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