Contactless Electrical Bioimpedance System for Monitoring Ventilation - A Biodevice for Vehicle Environment

Raúl Macías Macías, Miguel Ángel García González, Juan Ramos Castro, Ramon Bragós Bardia, Mireya Fernández Chimeno

2013

Abstract

Nowadays, automotive companies are focused in improving road traffic safety. For that, not only the vehicle performance is improved but also the driver behavior is monitored. This could be done in many ways. One of them is to monitor a specific physiological parameter using a biodevice. That device should be reliable enough to use in a very noisy environment like a vehicle is. Furthermore, because long-term monitoring is required, any invasive and annoying method should be avoided. Therefore, an electrical bioimpedance device capable of monitoring driver ventilation using several textiles electrodes has been designed and implemented.

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Macías Macías R., Ángel García González M., Ramos Castro J., Bragós Bardia R. and Fernández Chimeno M. (2013). Contactless Electrical Bioimpedance System for Monitoring Ventilation - A Biodevice for Vehicle Environment . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-34-1, pages 14-20. DOI: 10.5220/0004195800140020


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices13,
author={Raúl Macías Macías and Miguel Ángel García González and Juan Ramos Castro and Ramon Bragós Bardia and Mireya Fernández Chimeno},
title={Contactless Electrical Bioimpedance System for Monitoring Ventilation - A Biodevice for Vehicle Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={14-20},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004195800140020},
isbn={978-989-8565-34-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - Contactless Electrical Bioimpedance System for Monitoring Ventilation - A Biodevice for Vehicle Environment
SN - 978-989-8565-34-1
AU - Macías Macías R.
AU - Ángel García González M.
AU - Ramos Castro J.
AU - Bragós Bardia R.
AU - Fernández Chimeno M.
PY - 2013
SP - 14
EP - 20
DO - 10.5220/0004195800140020