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Real time heart rate and breathing detection using commercial motion sensors

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In this demo, we present a contactless breathing and heart rate sensing system that continuously and unobtrusively tracks physiological signals using commercial off-the-shelf radar modules. Our system provides a single sensor solution to track physical and physiological variables including coarse body movements as well as subtle and fine-grained chest movements due to breathing and heartbeat. Continuous tracking of these physiological variables especially, throughout the night can be used for sleep stage mining.

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      UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
      September 2015
      1626 pages
      ISBN:9781450335751
      DOI:10.1145/2800835
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      1. doppler radar
      2. embedded system
      3. health sensing
      4. non-contact detection

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      • FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
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      • Rakuten Institute of Technology
      • Microsoft
      • Bell Labs
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      • Panasonic
      • Telefónica
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      • (2018)A Collaborative Framework for Sensing Abnormal Heart Rate Based on a Recommender System: Semantic Recommender System for HealthcareJournal of Medical and Biological Engineering10.1007/s40846-018-0421-y38:6(1026-1045)Online publication date: 16-May-2018

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