E-Textile breathing sensor using fully-textile wearable antennas
E-Textile breathing sensor using fully-textile wearable antennas
E-Textile sensor networks enable a variety of applications including pervasive moni-toring for distributed healthcare. While commercial wearables can now measure var-ious quantities such as heart rate and activities, real-time, robust, and pervasive, breathing sensors remain an ongoing research challenge. In this paper, the use of wearable antennas for respiration monitoring is investigated based on a low-profile broadband fully-textile antenna. It is demonstrated that the antenna, suitable for operation on different substrates and body parts, exhibits over 2 dB wireless gain sensitivity to normal breathing. Unlike recent wearable breathing sensors, the proposed antenna has the simplest structure and does not rely on active mechanical sensing elements or specific materials. A simple peak-detection algorithm has been investigated showing a near-100% breath detection accuracy in line-of-sight. Based on the experimental results, it can be concluded that e-textile antennas can be utilized as highly accurate sensors for respiration monitoring, without the need for specific sensing elements or materials.
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Wagih, Mahmoud
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Malik, Obaid
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Weddell, Alex S.
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Beeby, Steve
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November 2021
Wagih, Mahmoud
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Malik, Obaid
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Weddell, Alex S.
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Beeby, Steve
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Wagih, Mahmoud, Malik, Obaid, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve
(2021)
E-Textile breathing sensor using fully-textile wearable antennas.
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E-Textile sensor networks enable a variety of applications including pervasive moni-toring for distributed healthcare. While commercial wearables can now measure var-ious quantities such as heart rate and activities, real-time, robust, and pervasive, breathing sensors remain an ongoing research challenge. In this paper, the use of wearable antennas for respiration monitoring is investigated based on a low-profile broadband fully-textile antenna. It is demonstrated that the antenna, suitable for operation on different substrates and body parts, exhibits over 2 dB wireless gain sensitivity to normal breathing. Unlike recent wearable breathing sensors, the proposed antenna has the simplest structure and does not rely on active mechanical sensing elements or specific materials. A simple peak-detection algorithm has been investigated showing a near-100% breath detection accuracy in line-of-sight. Based on the experimental results, it can be concluded that e-textile antennas can be utilized as highly accurate sensors for respiration monitoring, without the need for specific sensing elements or materials.
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Published date: November 2021
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International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles, , Manchester, United Kingdom, 2021-11-03 - 2021-11-04
Keywords:
breathing, sensor, respiration sensor, RF breathing monitor, RF breathing sensor, antenna breathing sensor, antenna respiration sensor, non-invasive breathing sensor, wearable breathing sensor, microwave breathing sensor, antenna sensors, RFID breathing sensor, RFID sensors, wireless breathing monitor, e-textile sensors
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Mahmoud Wagih
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Obaid Malik
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Alex S. Weddell
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Steve Beeby
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