| Title |
Development of a Ring-type Wearable Healthcare Device |
| Authors |
백현재(Hyun Jae Baek) ; 조재걸(Jaegeol Cho) |
| DOI |
http://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2018.67.7.892 |
| Keywords |
Healthcare ring ; Continuous monitoring ; SpO2 ; GSR ; Heart rate ; Sleep monitoring |
| Abstract |
Due to population aging, an increase in the number of patients with chronic illnesses, and an increase in the number of single-person households, monitoring of health status in everyday life without the need for a hospital has become very important. For this reason, researches on various health care devices have been attempted, among which wearable devices are attracting much attention. In this paper, we propose a new ring-type wearable device for next generation healthcare. On the inner side of the ring, a metal electrodes for GSR measurement and an optical sensor for measurement of pulse wave signals of two wavelengths of red and near-infrared light were mounted. In addition, it was equipped with an acceleration sensor, and information about the degree of motion could be obtained. In this paper, it is shown that a health monitoring device can be implemented in the form of a ring, and the measured signals can be used to calculate heart rate, oxygen saturation, sleep time and sleep efficiency. Through the advanced algorithm, it is expected that we can extract various health information, especially sleep related health information by using the ring device, and it is also expected that it can contribute to the implementation of wearable healthcare effectively. |