Poster: SCARAB2 - Scalable, robust and adaptive on board ballistocardiography

Since years the amount of medical incidents on passenger flights is increasing. Beside the personal stress and strains for concerned passenger, every incident leads to huge costs for the specific airline. To avoid both, the SCARAB2 project proposes to monitor passenger's health condition to identify imminent risk of health issues. Therefore, SCARAB2 faces the challenge of using Ballistocardiography (BCG) in passenger planes and noisy environments respectively. With accelerometer arrays mounted on the seats, cardiac signals of each passenger can be recorded. These data are collected non-invasive while several parameters can be measured, e.g. respiratory rate, heart rate, etc. but even complex parameters like blood pressure can be derived. However, the acceleration of BCG signals is rather small and the shaking and vibrating (noisy) environment of planes leads to strong requirements on hardware, signal processing and meaningful evaluations.

Subjects

aircraft

ballistocardiography

health enabling technology

vital monitoring

wireless sensor network

DDC Class

600: Technik

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Poster: SCARAB2 - Scalable, robust and adaptive on board ballistocardiography