Wireless Wearable Magnetometer-Based Sensor for Sleep Quality Monitoring

Obstructive sleep apnoea is one of the most common sleep disorders, which is characterized by the repetitive cessations of respiratory flow during sleep. This paper describes an alternative method to detect sleep parameters by measuring a variation in the earth’s magnetic field. A magnetometer sensor, laid onto the body, detects millimeter night-time breathing movements by measuring the change in the magnetic vectors. A soft, non-invasive wearable sensor is designed to be printed on a miniature printed circuit board, packaged in a minimal invasive board, which includes a wireless Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) module and a low-power microcontroller. A very low power consumption is achieved by applying a smart processing algorithm, which is also described. The algorithm delivers respiration rate, apnoea time, and time in movement. A comparison with a well-known air-flow sensor is also discussed.

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