A novel, low cost, wearable contact-based device for breathing frequency monitoring

This paper presents a device for breathing frequency assessment over the long period, based on low cost, wearable inertial units. Performances of the device were evaluated in static conditions on 9 healthy subjects and the estimated parameters were compared to those obtained with an already validated method (Optoelectronic Plethysmography). We obtained good correlation values (R2> 0.88) and low percentage errors (<5%) for all the time-based parameters extracted.

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