TY - GEN
T1 - Wearable mobile sensor and communication platform for the in-situ monitoring of lower limb health in amputees
AU - Mathur, Neha
AU - Glesk, Ivan
AU - Davidson, Alan
AU - Paul, Greig
AU - Banford, Jamie
AU - Irvine, James
AU - Buis, Adrianus
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PY - 2016/8/11
Y1 - 2016/8/11
N2 - Monitoring the health of a residual limb in prosthesis is key to detect early signs of tissue injury, and could improve patient quality of life. However, monitoring at skin level could induce possible discomfort and irritation, making the skin susceptible for breakdown. The use of non-invasive sensor technologies within the flexible liner of the prosthetic device can alleviate these issues. The rehabilitation of lower limb prosthesis wearers can be greatly improved by a reliable continuous monitoring system that can alert both the user and health authority by early warning of the development of tissue damage. In this work, we have created a wearable sensor platform for lower limb amputees that is capable of gathering data from the sensors (placed on the elastomer), and store and transmit to a central health database, for the purpose of analyzing it. This paper explores the architecture used, as well as some of the challenges encountered when handling such quantities of data as experienced in this project.
AB - Monitoring the health of a residual limb in prosthesis is key to detect early signs of tissue injury, and could improve patient quality of life. However, monitoring at skin level could induce possible discomfort and irritation, making the skin susceptible for breakdown. The use of non-invasive sensor technologies within the flexible liner of the prosthetic device can alleviate these issues. The rehabilitation of lower limb prosthesis wearers can be greatly improved by a reliable continuous monitoring system that can alert both the user and health authority by early warning of the development of tissue damage. In this work, we have created a wearable sensor platform for lower limb amputees that is capable of gathering data from the sensors (placed on the elastomer), and store and transmit to a central health database, for the purpose of analyzing it. This paper explores the architecture used, as well as some of the challenges encountered when handling such quantities of data as experienced in this project.
KW - e-health
KW - elastomer
KW - lower limb prosthetics
KW - rehabilitation
KW - sensors
KW - tissue health
KW - wearable sensor platform
UR - http://dev.iscas2016.org/#
UR - http://www.epapers.org/iscas2016/ESR/session_view.php?PHPSESSID=680i8ql918kf3tpo30bi0uqj22&session_id=134http://www.epapers.org/iscas2016/ESR/session_view.php?PHPSESSID=680i8ql918kf3tpo30bi0uqj22&session_id=134
U2 - 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7527503
DO - 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7527503
M3 - Conference contribution book
SN - 9781479953400
SP - 1336
EP - 1339
BT - 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
PB - IEEE
CY - Piscataway, NJ
T2 - IEEE International symposium on circuits and systems
Y2 - 22 May 2016 through 25 May 2016
ER -