Fall Detection and Posture Tracking: Indoor Positioning and Fall Detection System Without Wearables

In the past decades, the workload and the pressure on medical personnel has been growing to an unprecedented peak. This is partly due to the ageing population and the increasing capabilities to be independent at an older age, increasing the age people enter nursing homes. This paper focuses on a novel way to detect incidents that could occur in...

Indoor Positioning and Fall Detection System Without Wearables: <redacted>

This thesis report, one of a set of two reports, describes a novel way to detect incidents that could occur in the daily life of the elderly. Unlike most systems already implemented in this field, this system does not use any wearable (positioning) sensors and works off an Single Board Computer (SBC).Independent of both of these systems is a...

Inertial Measurement Unit-based post-surgery knee rehabilitation

Every year, nearly five million people undergo knee, making it one of the most common orthopaedic procedures. Sport-related injuries and age-related diseases are the major causes that lead to a knee operation. To recover mobility, stability and muscle strength, the person must go through a post-surgical rehabilitation program.<br/>The price of...

Optical Distance Measurement

This report details research, design, and implementation of a distance measuring subsystem for a pre existing patient monitoring platform. This platform is used to monitor vitals and the general situation regarding the elderly, people in care facilities, and babies in NICU’s (Neonatal Intensive Care Units). Every monitoring unit contains a GPS,...

Accurate distance measurement and Bluetooth audio communication: Bluetooth audio communication

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a subsystem within a larger medical monitoring system. This subsystem will make bidirectional audio communication possible between a patient and their caregivers or family members. The patient in question can be premature babies that have to stay inside of incubators and elderly people that...

Respiration and Heart Rate Monitoring of Neonates using Thermal Imaging

This project aims to explore the possibility of monitoring the vitals of the neonate remotely and without placing any sensors or electrodes on the subjects body using Thermal Imaging.

Non-Invasive Screening for Elevated Skin Temperature and Respiratory Rate related to COVID-19 using Thermal Imaging

Non-contact infrared thermal imaging provides a non-invasive, safe and accurate means for screening subjects. COVID-19 (a disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)) has changed how health care workers (HCW) interact with patients. Despite the usage of personal protective equipment (PPE), social...

Predicting Infections in Preterm Infants with Thermal Imaging Technology

Neonatal sepsis is a dangerous non-specific disease in babies, especially neonate/newborns. It is one of the leading causes of neonate mortality rate, because of the difficulty to diagnose, leading to late or false treatment. Previous research has found the promising feature of artificial intelligence or machine learning in solving the problem....

Scalable multi-platform medical system in a distributed environment

This report describes the implementation of a distributed system for an initially standalone application that is to be used in the medical sector. This new system aims to provide scalability and reliability.