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Demo Abstract: FreePulse Heart Rate Monitoring System using Ambient Structural Vibrations

  • Jesse R. Codling
  • , Jeffrey D. Shulkin
  • , Yiwen Dong
  • , Jiale Zhang
  • , Hugo Latapie
  • , Hae Young Noh
  • , Pei Zhang

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Abstract

Heart rate is a critical metric for human cardiovascular health. Most common methods for measuring human heart rate involve wearable devices (e.g., electrocardiography, smart watches). However, such devices can cause discomfort to some patients, especially the elderly or young children. This paper presents FreePulse, a heart rate monitoring system for seated subjects using ambient vibrations. FreePulse builds on our past work using vibrations in the building structures around us to measure human activities and health. As people's hearts beat, they push on the surfaces the body is touching, creating vibrations in those structures. We combine structure response characterization with human pulse modelling to identify these pulse-induced vibrations from ambient vibration. In testing, FreePulse has shown up to 96% pulse rate accuracy on average, competitive with consumer-grade wearable devices.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIPSN 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages364-365
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701184
DOIs
StatePublished - May 9 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2023 - San Antonio, United States
Duration: May 9 2023May 12 2023

Publication series

NameIPSN 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Conference

Conference22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio
Period5/9/235/12/23

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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