Wireless Sensing and Instrumentation for Application in Health

Wireless Sensing and Instrumentation for Application in Health Care and Maintenance Joe Paradiso Responsive Environments Group www. media. mit. edu/resenv Health. SIG - 11/13/00

Telemedicine Systems for Portable, low-cost medical measurement suite - Body temperature, Blood pressure, Stethoscope, ECG, Video camera, etc. - Software glue, communication - Used in Costa Rica & Dominican Republic Ari Adler, MS 2000 Wireless medical device network (Bluetooth? )

Sensate Sneakers - Multimodal Personal Activity Monitors 16 Measurements • 2 -axis tilt sensor • 3 -axis compass • 1 -axis rate gyro • 3 -axis shock sensor • Height sensor (EFS) • Sonar receiver • 1 PVDF strip (sole) • 3 FSR pressure tabs (sole) • Bend sensor (sole) • 20 kb/sec wireless • 50 Hz full-state updates

Expressive Footwear for Interactive Dance Award for Technical Innovation - winner in entertainment, 2000

Health-related directions Front Left Pressure Gyro Front Right Pressure X Shock Rear PVDF Pitch Tilt Bend Roll Tilt Footstep Jump, Spin, Land. . . Shoe-based system Multifeature gait analysis - Wearable podiatric laboratory - Interactive diagnosis & therapy, Sports coaching & training - Astronaut activity accumulator. . . Wireless, wearable sensor arrays Miniaturized sensor clusters - On feet, wrists Detect accelerations, impacts, angles… - Heart rate, respiration monitors - Measure physical & metabolic activity - Measure basic rhythms Generate content (music) interactively - Function of profile vs. current state - PC/Basestation shrink to beltpack

Demos in 357 (“Batcave” Lab) Stacy Morris Expressive Footwear Ari Benbasat Inertial Gesture Recognition