Beds and the bed environment can become a rich source of health-relevant data using contactless monitoring technologies. With appropriate instrumentation, they allow the collection of vital sign data during sleep and while awake and they can reveal important insights into sleep quality and presence of sleep disorders. We are developing new contactless sensor technologies for unobtrusive monitoring of vital signs and sleep to be used in people’s homes and in professional care settings. With this, we will take vital signs monitoring to places where they are currently not monitored, such as non-ICU hospital wards and homes.
vulnusMON
Funded by: BMBF
Period: 01/2017 – 09/2020
vulnusMON aims for the development of a holistic approach to support medical personnel as well as patients in the field of wound care. This includes the investigation of sensor concepts for the continuous and automated observation of wounds as well as the development of algorithms for their diagnosis.
ADAS & ME
Funded by: European Comission
Period: 09/2016 - 09/2019
ADAS & ME will develop Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that incorporate driver/rider state, situational/ environmental context, and adaptive interaction to automatically transfer control between vehicle and driver and thus ensure safer and more efficient road usage.
UnoSeco
Funded by: German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", DFG)
Period: 07/2016 - 06/2018
The goal of this project is the investigation of methods of multimodal bio-signal processing for vital sign estimation. The focus lies on the development of a methodology that is independent of the sensing method and especially considers non-contact and unobtrusive modalities, which in general are very susceptible to disturbances. However, in contrast to traditional clinical instrumentation they can potentially be integrated into objects of everyday life.
Digital Lifestyle Germany – Malaysia
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Period: 01/2016-12/2019
Practical Lectures for students of the UTM will be read as part of the practical partnership “Digital Lifestyle Germany – Malaysia”. The interaction of industry and university is an essential characteristic of a German engineering education and should be established in Malaysia.
Hydrozephalus
Funded by: German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", DFG)
Period: 01/2016 - 12/2017
The goal of this project is to study the craniospinal dynamic compliance (dV/dt / dp/dt) in connection to Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) in order to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for this disease
Contact-free monitoring of pulmonary function using magnetic induction for newborns in an incubator
Funded by: German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", DFG)
Period: 01/2015 - 06/2017
Goal of this project is the contact-free monitoring of ventilation of newborn infants within an incubator. By using the magnetic induction technique breathing could be measured locally. This allows continuous detection of lung diseases in clinical scenarios without the need of complex and expensive measurement technologies.
Sektor BIS
Funded by: German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", DFG)
Period: 01/2015 - 09/2017
The aim of “Sector BIS” is to detect lung pathologies with the help of bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS). Sectional diseases of the lung should be localized due to additional usage of middle electrodes, which can be integrated in ventilation tubes. Therefore an early detection of these lung pathologies should be possible, particularly in ventilated patients.
Smart PPG
Funded by: BMWI
Period: 11/2014 - 04/2017
It's the aim of the SmartPPG project to develop and validate a multi-sensor measurement system. For this, all established PPG-based arterial and venous diagnostic routines will be combined into a single device. Besides classical diagnsotic routines like muscle punp test, venous occlusion test, arterial oxygen saturation and local perfusion, also innovative parameters like the local oxygen metabolism will be developed and implemented.
Predicting hypoglycemia and arrhythmias in the vulnerable patient with diabetes and chronic kidney disease
Funded by: ERS Boost Fund Projekt
Period: 10/2014 - 03/2017
The aim of this project is to predict hypoglycemia and arrythmias in patients who suffer from diabetes and chronic kindey disease.
