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Radar fall detection and breath rate under $40

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Re: Radar fall detection and breath rate under $40

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Post by rmason »

When my late father moved into the nursing home they stuck him in the basement which had long hallways and at the time was mostly vacant. He had a walker and it didn't dawn on us it would ever be a problem.

But then he had a fall and couldn't get up. Anywhere else in the facility a staff member would have found him within five minutes. After a half hour and multiple failed attempts to stand he remembered his cell phone and called a Lodge member who took another twenty minutes to get there and help him up.

He didn't call me because he didn't want me to know he fell. But his Lodge buddy ratted him out to me and I was able to get him on a list for the first available room upstairs. A device like this could have alerted someone at the facility that he had fallen, this is a very big deal and it's going to save lives.

Re: Radar fall detection and breath rate under $40

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Post by coredog64 »

GameOfKnowing wrote: post #4

The breath rate application really got my mind turning here— replacing 2 wearables (breath monitor, fall monitor) with a wireless device, and pulse sensing can already be done by video. Imagine walking into a hospital room or grandma’s home & having full bio monitoring with no tubes or cables…

In 2014, the ResMed office in Ireland was doing this “off label” with their S+ sleep monitor. They were very close, and the goal/target market was for seniors in long term care facilities.

Re: Radar fall detection and breath rate under $40

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Post by bsder »

rmason wrote: post #11

When my late father moved into the nursing home they stuck him in the basement which had long hallways and at the time was mostly vacant. He had a walker and it didn't dawn on us it would ever be a problem. But then he had a fall and couldn't get up. Anywhere else in the facility a staff member would have found him within five minutes. After a half hour and multiple failed attempts to stand he remembered his cell pho…

> A device like this could have alerted someone at the facility that he had fallen, this is a very big deal and it's going to save lives.

Nope. It will never get deployed.

The problem is that when it fails, who is liable?

I've said it over and over, but the revolution in biomedical will happen when someone solves the problem of indemnity and not before.

Re: Radar fall detection and breath rate under $40

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Post by aftbit »

elcomet wrote: post #12
robocat wrote: post #3

That board shouldn’t have passed QC? The largest SMD on the first image of the board is severely off-centre.

What's the issue with this ?

It just looks ugly. A slightly larger misalignment could cause shorts on pads above, which would impair the device function, but if it isn't, it isn't.

Re: Radar fall detection and breath rate under $40

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Post by quickthrowman »

keville wrote: post #6

This ought to make for inexpensive home automation sensors that do much better occupancy detection for rooms than pIR sensors, which stall out if you're sitting and don't move enough to trigger "motion" but still want lights on in the room.

There are ‘dual-tech’ occ sensors that use IR and ultrasonic sensors to avoid the issue that you mentioned.
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