Ubiquitous health monitoring at home - Sensing of human biosignals on flooring, on tatami mat, in the bathtub, and in the lavatory

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1847-1855

  Watanabe, Kajiro ^a   Kurihara, Yosuke ^b   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^c  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SEIKEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health monitoring; Heartbeat; Respiration; S N ratio; Unconstrained biosensing

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSING; HEALTH MONITORING; HEARTBEAT; RESPIRATION; S/N RATIO;

BUILDING MATERIALS; HEALTH; MAINTENANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; WOODEN FLOORS;

MONITORING;

EID: 78249239830     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2030987     Document Type: Article

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