A Modular Sensorized Mat for Monitoring Infant Posture

We present a novel sensorized mat for monitoring infant's posture through the measure of pressure maps. The pressure-sensitive mat is based on an optoelectronic technology developed in the last few years at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna: a soft silicone skin cover, which constitutes the mat, participates in the transduction principle and provides the mat with compliance. The device has a modular structure (with a minimum of one and a maximum of six sub-modules, and a total surface area of about 1 m2) that enables dimensional adaptation of the pressure-sensitive area to different specific applications. The system consists of on-board electronics for data collection, pre-elaboration, and transmission to a remote computing unit for analysis and posture classification. In this work we present a complete description of the sensing apparatus along with its experimental characterization and validation with five healthy infants.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Italian National Conference on Sensors

• Publication date

  2013-12-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/s140100510PMID 24385029PMCID 3926572
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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