title: Wearable system-on-a-chip UWB radar for contact-less cardiopulmonary monitoring: present status.
abstract: The present status of the project aimed at the realization of an innovative wearable system-on-chip UWB radar for the cardiopulmonary monitoring is presented. The overall system consists of a wearable wireless interface including a fully integrated UWB radar for the detection of the heart beat and breath rates, and a IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee low-power radio interface. The principle of operation of the UWB radar for the monitoring of the heart wall is summarized. With respect to the prior art, this paper reports the results of the experimental characterization of the intra-body channel loss, which has been carried out successfully in order to validate the theoretical model employed for the radar system analysis. Moreover, the main building blocks of the radar have been manufactured in 90 nm CMOS technology by ST-Microelectronics and the relevant performance are resulted in excellent agreement with those expected by post-layout simulations.
authors.affiliation: Radio-frequency and Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory (RFLab), Department of Information Engineering (DIIEIT), University of Pisa, 56122 Italy. d.zito@iet.unipi.it
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zito
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pepe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mincica
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zito
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Rossi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lanata
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Scilingo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tognetti
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008904:Miniaturization; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D011825:Radar / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics / Q000502:physiology; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013147:Spirometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends