Development of wireless health monitoring devices

Microwave radar for vital signs (breathing, heart rate, body position) detection has been introduced since the early 1970s. Unlike traditional patient monitoring systems that require users to ‘wear’ devices and
sensors, a radar system does not rely on, or require wearable electronic on-body sensors. The initial work was expensive, bulky, and heavy but there has been much progress to overcome these limitations using system-on-chip architectures. Radars have many advantages over typical wearable devices such as comfort, privacy, maximized mobility, and being the only monitoring option in cases such as patients with burn injuries. The talk will focus on presenting brief history, related research and developments of an unobtrusive system that will capture the vital physiological signals of users remotely.