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{{Wikify|date=January 2009}} |
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'''Remote monitoring''' of people is now a possibility due to remote wireless technology and devices getting smaller. Also the advent of "smart fabrics" in recent years has allowed people to stay attached to monitoring devices without the issues of discomfort, large bulky technology or skin break down associated with sticky patches. |
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The field of remote sensing a persons vital signs have come a long way in recent years. Polar from Finland has for the last 20 years produced a conductive plastic strap that communicates to a watch using an oscillating magnetic field or recently a digital radio interface. Watches or "wrist tops" by Polar and Suunto among others have been getting more and more complex in recent years with training programs and weight loss calorie counters. Actigraph, a company from Florida, USA, has pioneered the used of solid state accelerometers to measure human movement. Vivometric has found limited success with its LifeShirt concept. The Lifeshirt looks like a waist coat, connects with a cable to a PDA on the persons belt and measures heart rate, breathing rate, and movement. |
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Until recently there was no practical system that allowed a person to have a sensor that was comfortable, unobtrusive, cost effective and put multiple parameters together to enable automatic measuring of fitness, fatigue, distress and condition. Several systems have been developed in recent years that have made pioneering advances in terms of comfort, reliability, ease of use, and technical accuracy. |
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The BioHarness (Zephyr Technology) allows a remote to view vital signs and status such as if someone has fallen over. The Bluetooth radio built in allows the device to communicate with VHF radios for soldiers and police officers or firefighters and also to mobile phones for local applications or internet connectivity such as remote patient monitoring by doctors. |
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The Mini Mitter Company (now Respironics/Philips) developed a system for vital signs data logging known as VitalSense and released the system for commercial production in 2003. It consists of a set of miniature, wireless physiological sensors associated with a personal-worn radio-frequency receiver. As of 2009, it supports core body temperature, heart rate, respiration rate and skin temperature. |
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Developed by Cambridgeshire based Hidalgo Ltd (part of the Jaltek Group), [[Equivital]]. is an ambulatory, wearable, high performance physiological system providing continuous real time visibility of an individual’s vital signs over a personal Bluetooth network or via a field radio system. These include heart rate, 2-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), respiration rate and effort, temperature, body position, blood oxygen saturation, impact and fall detection. It is also applicable to the remote monitoring of patient condition within hospitals and at home following their release. |
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Other technologies that allow patients to be monitored include Bluetooth enabled blood pressure cuffs, bathroom scales and glucose meters. |
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== See also == |
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* [[Battlefield medicine]] |
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* [[Heart rate monitor]] |
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== References == |
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* [http://www.equivital.co.uk Equivital<sup>TM</sup> Remote Physiological Monitoring System] |
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* [http://www.zephyr-technology.com BioHarness<sup>TM</sup> remote monitoring devices] |
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== Papers == |
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*Understanding affective Interaction [http://thamakau.usc.edu/Proceedings/ACII%202009/proceedings/documents/144.pdf] |
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*Parsimonious Identification of Physiological Indices for Monitoring Cognitive Fatigue [http://www.springerlink.com/content/07u11l48ju7n853n/] |
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*McDonnell, L., Hume, P.A., Nolte, V. 2009. Reliability of the ShoePod foot pressure system and BioHarness heart rate and breathing rate system during water and land ergometer rowing. A technical report for Rowing New Zealand and Zephyr technology. |
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[[Category:Physiological instruments]] |
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