2021-04-13: Prof. Dr. Thomas M Deserno invited to speak at the HTIC
The workshop on 'Wire-free, multi-modal non-contact physiological sensing and monitoring' is a virtual workshop organized by Indian Institute of Technology Madras and RWTH Aachen University. Eighteen speakers from different universities and organizations will talk on the latest developments in non-contact monitoring.
The title of his talk was "Transforming smart environments into diagnostic spaces".
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines – among others – environmental, behavioral, physiological, and psychological domains as being important to assess individual health, wellbeing, and quality of life. We aim at unobtrusively measuring parameters from all these domains simultaneously, integrating contactless sensors into smart human environments such that homes and vehicles. In contrast to smart implants, wearables or clothes, both environments provide battery-less power supply, computational and storage resources, and internet connection. All sensors are integrated and synchronized using bus systems such as the CAN and BASIS for cars and homes, respectively. Sensor reliability is derived from multi-modal data. By this, we transform smart environments into private diagnostic spaces. Then, such spaces support a personalized and continuous health monitoring of individuals, where sensors may be adopted to the specific needs of the subject. Two examples are given: (i) fall detection in smart homes and (ii) in-vehicle heart rate monitoring to recognize atrial fibrillations that may result in a stroke. These examples emphasize the potential of such diagnostic spaces. At first, identifying individual changes allows to take action before adverse events such as fall or stroke occur, and secondly, identifying adverse events allows to call for help automatically, without any human in the loop.
