Pervasive !Electromagnetics!

Lab NIGHTCARE:!

Personal  and  Environmental  Pa0ent  Monitoring  System Cecilia Occhiuzzi Sara Amendola Stefano Caizzone Sabina Manzari Gaetano Marrocco

The  average  person  spends  33%  of  his  

life  sleeping.        Monitor  to  improve  life  quality…  Monitor  to  alert…  Monitor  to  help  assistance…  Monitor  to  cure…  

Reader    ANTENNA  

AT  WT  

Environmental    Passive  Tags  

Wearable  Passive  Tags  

RFID  Reader  

Real-­‐?me    Data-­‐Processing  engine  

1. Components

•  Elderlies,  pa?ents,  children  •  Home,  Hospital,  Nursing  

Home  •   Diagnos?cs,  Assistance  and  

Medical  Follow  up  

2. Features

3. EM Compliance

•  Passive  •  Scalable  •  User  friendly  •  Totally  customizable  

4. Validation and Case Study!

 The  guest’s  

safety  is  sensibly  improved  

 Less  operators  are  needed  to  monitor  tens  of  

residents  

Remote  Monitoring  of  temperature  

Remote  Monitoring  of  incon?nence  

Remote  Monitoring  of  behavior  

An  Ambient  Intelligence  pla6orm  for  remote  monitoring  and  control  of  overnight  living  environment,  able  to  

recognize  nocturnal  behaviors  and  ac=vi=es,  generate  automa=c  alarms  in  case  of  anomalous  or  pathological  

events  and  support  diagnos=cs.  

The  backscaAered  response  of  the  tags  to  the  reader’s  query  is  modified  by  the  proximity  of  the  human  body  with  the  tags  themselves.     Goal:  extract  informa=on  about  ac=vity  and  about  specific  postures  during  the  sleep.    

95-years old volunteer

Volunteers   20  Male/Female  Age   24  -­‐  46    years  

Height   1,58  –  1,76  m  Weight   50  –  75  Kg   Pick-up the Video

Average  Accuracy  97%  

(FEKO)

Nursing  Home  

European  Recommenda=ons:  •  |E|<41  V/m  Italian  Law:  •  |E|<6V/m    

Field lower than Italian |Emax|

Standard  CENELEC  EN  

50364.    0.08   2  

Mobile  phone    (IPhone  5S)   0.951  

WiFi   0.6  

NIGHTcare   0.6  �10-­‐3   4  �  10-­‐3