TY - GEN
T1 - On-site Evaluation of Rehabilitation Patients Monitoring System Using Distributed Wireless Gateways
AU - Matsunaga, Kenichi
AU - Ogasawara, Takayuki
AU - Kodate, Junichi
AU - Mukaino, Masahiko
AU - Saitoh, Eiichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - This paper presents a hands-free monitoring system for rehabilitation patients that uses wireless gateways to fully cover the floor of an inpatient ward. For stroke rehabilitation, 24-hour monitoring is recommended. Low-power wireless such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is suitable for this purpose because of its long battery life. However, most systems require smartphones or tablet computers to acquire patient data due to BLE's short communication range. Instead of using smartphones, we installed around fifty BLE gateways to implement a hands-free data acquisition system. The system was evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively. The data acquisition rate of the system was found to be over 90% through 24-hour patient monitoring, which is almost the same as that for systems using smartphones. Questionnaires about usability administered to both medical staff and patients suggested that they felt the smartphone-less system was more comfortable than the smartphone system. These results suggest the possibility of using such a distributed data acquisition system in real medical wards and its benefits.
AB - This paper presents a hands-free monitoring system for rehabilitation patients that uses wireless gateways to fully cover the floor of an inpatient ward. For stroke rehabilitation, 24-hour monitoring is recommended. Low-power wireless such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is suitable for this purpose because of its long battery life. However, most systems require smartphones or tablet computers to acquire patient data due to BLE's short communication range. Instead of using smartphones, we installed around fifty BLE gateways to implement a hands-free data acquisition system. The system was evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively. The data acquisition rate of the system was found to be over 90% through 24-hour patient monitoring, which is almost the same as that for systems using smartphones. Questionnaires about usability administered to both medical staff and patients suggested that they felt the smartphone-less system was more comfortable than the smartphone system. These results suggest the possibility of using such a distributed data acquisition system in real medical wards and its benefits.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856963
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856963
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 31946567
AN - SCOPUS:85077868222
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 3195
EP - 3198
BT - 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
Y2 - 23 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -