Smart Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor System for Monitoring and Handling Bedridden Patients

Smart Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor System for Monitoring and Handling Bedridden Patients

  This paper presents a novel smart Fiber Bragg Grating sensor system which automatically monitors the behaviour of bedridden patients and their vital signs such as pulse rate based on indicative spatio-temporal signature for adaptive intervention triggering and activity planning. In particular, we present the subtle design, fabrication, calibration, implementation and deployment issues of the FBG pressure sensors to be used in a home or hospital to prevent bedsore generation, patients falling out of the bed or chair, and life threatening situations such as patient"s pulse rate weakening, etc. In addition, we provide a reusable middleware support system by exploiting Semantic Web standards to enable a number of novel services that facilitate caregiving and clinical assessment of bedridden patients in a context enlightened fashion.