TY - GEN
T1 - A prototype design of a continuous and real-time wireless urine monitoring system
AU - Cheng, Yung Tsung
AU - Lin, Jiun Hung
AU - Tai, Cheng Chi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is part of the CARMeN project and was supported by grants from Région Alsace, Oséo, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, Conseil Départemental du Bas-Rhin, Bruker BioSpin, University of Strasbourg, and Strasbourg University Hospital. Competing interests: The authors have declared no competing interests. Author contributions: A.I.—writer, study design, spectra and data analysis, bibliographic research, and manuscript review; F.-M.M.—HRMAS-NMR data acquisition, spectra analysis and metabolites quantification; P.R.—modeling, data analysis; S.B.—statistical analysis; A.E.C.—network analysis; F.S.—patient surgical management; L.B.—patient surgical management; A.B.—molecular biology analysis, data analysis; K.E.—spectra analysis and metabolites quantification; A.L.—statistical analysis, data analysis; P.B.—patient surgical management; B.G.—patient clinical management, data analysis; C.S.—writer, manuscript review; K.P.—writer, data analysis, manuscript review; I.-J.N.—experimental design, data analysis, manuscript review. D.T.—writer, study design, data analysis, bibliographic research, and manuscript review. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/12/24
Y1 - 2014/12/24
N2 - In recent years, because of the effects of low birth rates, developed countries are not only encountering aging population issues but also facing a shortage of quality care for the aged and disabled. Most senior and long-term care providers have difficulty recruiting and retaining a sufficient number of skillful caregivers because a caregiver is usually burdened with monitoring many people whose physical status, especially the status of their urine drainage bags, need real-time monitoring and response operations. However, any busy caregiver is prone to overlook the status of a patient, which causes problems. Therefore, this study proposes a new monitoring system that uses accelerometers to measure the vibrations of urine bags and then wirelessly transmits relevant data to further identify the status of the urine bags. The system could not only add monitoring features for patients but also facilitate the work of caregivers.
AB - In recent years, because of the effects of low birth rates, developed countries are not only encountering aging population issues but also facing a shortage of quality care for the aged and disabled. Most senior and long-term care providers have difficulty recruiting and retaining a sufficient number of skillful caregivers because a caregiver is usually burdened with monitoring many people whose physical status, especially the status of their urine drainage bags, need real-time monitoring and response operations. However, any busy caregiver is prone to overlook the status of a patient, which causes problems. Therefore, this study proposes a new monitoring system that uses accelerometers to measure the vibrations of urine bags and then wirelessly transmits relevant data to further identify the status of the urine bags. The system could not only add monitoring features for patients but also facilitate the work of caregivers.
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U2 - 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2014.15
DO - 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2014.15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84921630325
T3 - Proceedings - 2014 10th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2014
SP - 29
EP - 32
BT - Proceedings - 2014 10th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2014
A2 - Watada, Junzo
A2 - Ito, Akinori
A2 - Pan, Jeng-Shyang
A2 - Chao, Han-Chieh
A2 - Chen, Chien-Ming
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2014
Y2 - 27 August 2014 through 29 August 2014
ER -