Multi-person sleeping respiration monitoring with COTS WiFi devices

Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Xuefeng Liu, Kai Xing

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Abstract

Recently, non-intrusive respiration monitoring has attracted much attention. Many respiration monitoring systems using the commercial off-the-shelf WiFi devices have been developed. However, these systems mainly have difficulties in the presence of multiple persons. The difficulty generally comes from the separation of the effects of multiple persons’ respiration on the received WiFi signals. Another problem is that even though the separation can be feasible with some complicated algorithms, it is still impossible to map the multiple identified respiration states to the corresponding persons. In this paper, we study the problem of multi-person sleeping respiration monitoring and try to address the above challenges. Instead of focusing on developing complicated signal processing algorithms, we take another approach: via the deployment of WiFi transceivers. The key insight comes from the WiFi Fresnel zone model, which indicates that a carefully placed WiFi transceiver may only be affected by the person in a certain location. Furthermore, we consider the sleeping movements of people as well as the sleeping posture change to improve the robustness of the system. Extensive experiments show that we can successfully estimate the respiration rate of multiple persons, with the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.5 bpm − 1 bpm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages37-45
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781538655801
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Dec 2018
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2018 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 9 Oct 201812 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2018

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period9/10/1812/10/18

Keywords

  • Multi-person scenario
  • Respiration monitoring
  • WiFi Fresnel zone

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Instrumentation

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