Smart Biomedical System with Rapid Screening for Older People in Small Scale Indoor Environment

Abstract

This project proposes a smart bedsheet— i-Sheet—for remotely monitoring the health of cardiovascular, chronic respiratory, cancer, Parkinson's, and COVID-19, patients. Typically, real-time health monitoring is very crucial for diseased patients to prevent their health from deteriorating. Conventional healthcare monitoring systems are manual and require patient input to start monitoring health. However, it is difficult for the patients to give input in critical conditions as well as at night. For instance, if the oxygen saturation level decreases during sleep, then it is difficult to monitor. Furthermore, there is a need for a system that monitors post-disease effects as various vitals get affected, and there are chances of their failure even after the recovery. i-Sheet exploits these features and provides the health monitoring of diseased patients based on their pressure on the bedsheet. It works in three phases: 1) sensing the pressure exerted by the patient on the bedsheet; 2) categorizing the data into groups (comfortable and uncomfortable) based on the fluctuations in the data; and 3) alerting the caregiver about the condition of the patient. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of i-Sheet in monitoring the health of the patient.