A Smart Bed Platform for Monitoring & Ulcer Prevention
The focus of this paper is to develop a softwarehardware platform that addresses one of the most costly, acute health conditions, pressure ulcers - or bed sores. Caring for pressure ulcers is extremely costly, increases the length of hospital stays and is very labor intensive. The proposed platform collects information from various sensors incorporated into the bed, analyzes the data to create a time-stamped, whole-body pressure distribution map, and commands the beds actuators to periodically adjust its surface profile to redistribute pressure over the entire body. These capabilities are combined to form a cognitive support system, that augments the ability of a care giver, allowing them to provide better care to more patients in less time. For proof of concept, we have implemented algorithms and architectures that cover four key aspects of this platform: 1) data collection, 2) modeling & profiling, 3) machine learning, and 4) acting.
R. Yousefi S. Ostadabbas M. Faezipour M. Nourani V. Ng L. Tamil A. Bowling D. Behan M. Pompeo
Quality of Life Technology Laboratory, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 College of Nursing, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 Presbyterian Wound Care Clinic, Dallas, TX, 75231
国际会议
上海
英文
1368-1372
2011-10-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）