RFID-Based Smart Sleep Monitoring Scarf to Evaluate the Impacts of Sleep Disruptions

Abstract

Sleep stage scoring is the gold standard for the analysis of human sleep. The aim of sleep stage scoring is to identify the sleep stages that are vital in diagnosing and treating sleep Disorders. It is generally conducted based on Polysomnographic (PSG) Recordings that are acquired from the patients while they sleep overnight at the hospital. Many research studies have used multiple EEG channels. However, the equipment needed for multiple EEG channels places a limitation on the subject’s movement, which hinders the portability, wear ability and feasibility of the sleep quality evaluation device. Therefore, the implementation of a wearable device that monitors sleep quality using a single EEG channel would be of interest among the sleep research community.

Most of the women have faced issues to get proper sleep and this can be due to various reasons such as social, biological, physical etc. This type of sleep disorders may cause more detrimental effects on overall health. Symptoms such as poor performance level, emotional imbalance and health ailments; have been attributed primarily to lack of quality sleep. The goal of this project is to design a scarf that monitors quality of sleep in patients and transmits information to caretakers via RFID and information about a patient’s sleep will be readily available on a phone app. The scarf should be inexpensive and as operational as its costlier alternatives.