LONG-TERM MONITORING USING WEARABLE DEVICES

Technologies:

• Framework for extracting physiological information from PPG:
  • • Robust PPG pulse detector.
    • PPG-derived respiration technique that is robust againist sympathetic (LF) noise.
    • Physiology-driven PPG pulse decomposition analysis technique
    • PPG-based baroreflex sensitivity estimation technique
• PPG-based obstructive sleep apnea syndrome detection in children.
• Robust ECG-derived respiration technique, evaluated, among others, with exercise stress test recordings and with recordings from a wearable armband.

Targeting sector:

• Companies interested in ambulatory/wearable solutions for cardiorespiratory monitoring.

Biomedical acquisition lab, including:

• Tilt table set
• Finometer for Blood pressure measurement
• BIOPAC system for data acquisition

Ambulatory biomedical signals acquisition equipment, including:

• Holter devices
• Polysomnography system SOMTE PSG V2
• Medicom ABP 10, including sensors for ECG, PPG, EMG, respiration, EDA, etc.

Wearable devices:

• ECG-wearable armband prototype developed at University of Connecticut
• AppleWatch
• Polar OH1

• Technology transfer agreement with Volumetrix LLC (Nashville, TN, USA) on validation of pulse rate variability, respiratory frequency and stress assessment from NIVAband.
• Consulting agreement with Gideon Health INC (DE, USA) on physiology-driven signal processing techniques for wearable devices.
• Technology transfer agreement with Brainmatterz LLC (McKinney, TX, USA) on ambulatory/wearable solutions for sleep apnea monitoring.