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Monitoring Drivers’ Ventilation Using an Electrical Bioimpedance System: Tests in a Controlled Environment

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Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2013)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 452))

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As improving road safety is one of the first aims in the automotive world, several new techniques and methods are being researched in recent years. Some of them consist of monitoring the driver behavior to detect non-appropriate states for driving, e.g. drowsy driving or drunk driving. Usually, the appearance of these non-appropriate states is related to changes in several physiological parameters. This work is divided into two main parts. The first one presents an electrical bioimpedance system capable of monitoring the ventilation using textile electrodes. Apart from describing the system, in this part some tests done in a controlled environment are also shown. In the second part of this paper, an enhancement of the system is described and checked using a patient simulator.

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The present work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Proyecto IPT-2011-0833-900000. Healthy Life style and Drowsiness Prevention-HEALING DROP.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici C-4, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Raúl Macías, Miguel Ángel García, Juan Ramos, Ramon Bragós & Mireya Fernández-Chimeno

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Macías, R., García, M.Á., Ramos, J., Bragós, R., Fernández-Chimeno, M. (2014). Monitoring Drivers’ Ventilation Using an Electrical Bioimpedance System: Tests in a Controlled Environment. In: Fernández-Chimeno, M., et al. Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 452. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44485-6_2

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