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Smart Personal Health Manager: A Sensor BAN Application
A Demonstration
Deepak Ayyagari PhD, Yongji Fu PhD, Jingping Xu PhD, Nhedti Colquitt
Consumer Systems and Technologies Dept., Sharp Laboratories of America 5750 NW Pacific Rim Blvd., Camas, WA 98607 USA. [email protected]
Abstract The Smart Personal Health Manager is a system designed to monitor physiological vital signs, and personal environments, while providing disease specific expert real time analysis and feedback to the common user via a personal device such as a PDA or cell phone. This demonstration will consist of the wearable body monitor, a personal environment monitor and a personal UI device, all providing real time, wearable, ambulatory, continuous monitoring, analysis and feedback. This application is based on a suite of sensors connected on a multi-hop network and demonstrates solutions to the engineering challenges in low power networking, battery power and compute power management, wearable computing solutions, real time signal processing of physiological data etc. Keywords-component; Body area networt (BAN); sensor suite; personal health management; multihop network;
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A PDA/ Cell Phone: Hosting platform for the UI and rules-based expert system, statistical analysis and signal processing algorithms and a special multi-hop networking protocol.
Physiological and environmental parameters are monitored and analyzed for self-management of environmentally-linked respiratory ailments. The system provides patients with warnings and instructions. The system is designed to reduce ER and physician visits, and improve clinical outcomes. The low power networked sensor suite and wearable continuous monitoring engineering are the focus of this demonstration, not the clinical expert systems and the analytical engines.
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INTRODUCTION
Personal health management systems that assist in the self management of chronic diseases are receiving increasing in the healthcare industry, which is severely capacity, cost and resource constrained. There is growing evidence of the advantages of personal health management systems including improved disease management outcomes, quality of life improvement and healthcare cost reductions [1, 2, 3]. In this demonstration, a personal health management system based on a multi-hop wireless BAN of sensors is presented. The system consists of three major component sub-systems: 1. A Wearable Body Monitor: Real time monitoring of heart rate, respiration rate and other heart and lung-specific parameters. An Environment Monitor: A waist-worn multi-sensor platform for continuous, ambulatory monitoring of the environment, control of the network, data processing.
Figure 1 Illustrate the demonstration of the health manager on a live person
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SYSTEM OVERVIEW
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The environmental pod sends data to the central controller (e.g., PDA) via a Bluetooth (BT) link. Distributed sensors acquire the patients continuous physiological signals, and use the environmental pod as a relay to transfer data to the central controller. A low power radio (LPR) link provides the network between the environmental pod and physiological sensors. Real-time patient data are sent to the central controller and analyzed for patient health status. This system provides (1) an extension of or replacement for current manual, non-continuous
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self-care processes (such as keeping a symptom diary), and (2) an enhancement of current triage processes (such as emergency department triage), which can benefit from but typically do not involve continuous physiological assessment. III. SENSOR SUITE AND MULTI-HOP BAN The system is designed as a distributed sensor suite, which includes environmental sensors (air temperature, humidity, and airborne particle levels), as well as physiological sensors (respiration and heart sounds, and SpO2). Raw and derived data are sent to the central controller.
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SYSTEM APPLICATIONS
The system is designed for 2 different application modes. In the patient mode, the user can wear the on-body sensors on a 24/7 basis. Only derived data is sent via this network in this mode as shown in Fig 3. Thus, in patient mode, the battery is expected to last more than 24 hours. The researcher mode is designed to collect raw data and derived data for algorithm development, system optimization, and clinical studies. The raw data is acquired and saved in the central controller for post analysis. Fig 4 shows an example of tracheal sound and lung sound raw data. The researchers can customize the kind of data collected (e.g., raw or derived data) to suit the goals of the experiment.
Figure 2. Multi-hop Network
The multi-hop BAN is described in Fig.2. The link between the environmental pod and central controller is BT, which is commonly available for personal digital devices. The environmental pod also hosts an LPR for communication with the various physiological monitors. The environmental pod aggregates and relays data from its low power network to the central controller via the BT link. The LPR network performs - high data load, small size and limited weight battery, etc. This design opts to locate the multiple radio hub on the environmental pod, rather than on the central controller. This supports the goal of using COTS technologies for the radios and the personal digital device. A proprietary application level control protocol has been designed for the system. Key features include, network configuration, status checking, and power management. A special data transmission function controls transfer of data.
Figure 4. Raw data from physiological sensors Top: Tracheal sounds, bottom: lung sounds
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CONCLUSION
A multi-hop wireless BAN sensor application is presented in this paper. Application features, system design, and system components are described. Finally data and results as viewed by the user of the system are shown here and in the demonstration.
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Figure 3. Patient disease status

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Figure 1 Illustrate the demonstration of the health manager on a live person

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Figure 2. Multi-hop Network

Figure 3. Patient disease status

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