著者

本井 幸介 中村 心也 田中 直登 山越 憲一

出版者

Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering = 日本生体医工学会

雑誌

生体医工学 = Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering : 日本エム・イー学会誌 (ISSN:1347443X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, no.4, pp.268-275, 2013-08

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Recently, the freak accidents in home have been increased and they are caused by the asphyxiation, drowning, falling, fire, and toxicosis. Especially in bathroom, the accident frequently arise and thus the healthcare monitoring and the accident detection system can be useful for attainment of safe and untroubled daily life. While some monitoring systems for moving state using infrared ray and ultrasonic wave were already developed, these methods distinguish only whether or not a bather is moving. Also, detailed motion analysis using CCD camera has the problem of privacy for the practical use. From these viewpoints, we designed the monitoring system for the electrocardiogram and respiration signal using bathtub-installed electrodes, showing its usefulness for the healthcare and the drowning alarm during taking a bath. However, the range over which this method is possible is limited in the bathtub and thus the detection in washing place are impossible. To solve this drawback, we developed a new system capable of detecting the accident in the washing place together with the pulse and respiration rate using a bath mat type multipoint pressure sensor located in washing place of bathroom. From the results of the accuracy evaluation in 20 healthy subjects, it is demonstrated that the present system can accurately detect the accident [60/60, 100%] and show the good correlation between the pulse [r=0.99] and respiration [r=0.95] obtained from the system and those obtained from the conventional methods using the sensors attached to the body surface.