Prof. Abhishek Srivastava and his students Narahari N Moudhgalya (PG1); Pranjal Mahajan (PG2) and Jewel Benny (UG4); presented their work on Design and Measurements of mmWave FMCW Radar Based Non-Contact Multi-Patient Heart Rate and Breath Rate Monitoring System at IInvenTiv-2024 held at IIT Hyderabad on 19 and 20 January.
On the second day, the live demo by Prof. Abhishek Srivastava and his students attracted over 20 groups of attendees, including individuals from prominent MNCs and students from various universities. They also gave interviews to local news channels and YouTube vloggers.
Here is the summary of the research work as explained by the authors: Jewel Benny; Narahari N Moudhgalya; Pranjal Mahajan; Prof. Abhishek Srivastava and Prof. Mohd Wajid, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU):
Recent developments in mmWave radar technologies have enabled the truly non-contact heart-rate (HR) and breath-rate (BR) measurement approaches, which provides a great ease in patient monitoring. Additionally, these technologies also provide opportunities to simultaneously detect HR and BR of multiple patients, which has become increasingly important for efficient mass monitoring scenarios. In this work, a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) mmWave radar based truly non-contact multiple patient HR and BR monitoring system has been presented. Furthermore, a novel approach is also proposed, which combines multiple processing methods using a least squares solution to improve measurement accuracy, generalization, and handle measurement error. The proposed system has been developed using Texas Instruments’ FMCW radar and experimental results with multiple subjects are also presented, which show >97% and >93% accuracy in the measured BR and HR values, respectively.
Link to the full paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10388660
The event drew participation from 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 7 IISERs, and 6 IIITs. Notably, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, the Honorable Education Minister of India, was among the distinguished guests.
January 2024