title: Development of a fully automated network system for long-term health-care monitoring at home.
abstract: Daily monitoring of health condition at home is very important not only as an effective scheme for early diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and other diseases, but also for prevention and control of such diseases. From this point of view, we have developed a prototype room for fully automated monitoring of various vital signs. From the results of preliminary experiments using this room, it was confirmed that (1) ECG and respiration during bathing, (2) excretion weight and blood pressure, and (3) respiration and cardiac beat during sleep could be monitored with reasonable accuracy by the sensor system installed in bathtub, toilet and bed, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. motoi@kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Motoi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ikarashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nogawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nemoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamakoshi
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001331:Automation; D001450:Ballistocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D001835:Body Weight; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004566:Electrodes; D004867:Equipment Design; D006339:Heart Rate; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods