32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Headset Bluetooth and Cell Phone based Continuous Central.

32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Headset Bluetooth and Cell Phone based Continuous Central Body Temperature

Measurement System

J. Miguel Sanches1,2, Bruno Pereira2 and Teresa Paiva3,4

1Institute for Systems and Robotics2Instituto Superior Técnico

3Centro de Electroencefalografia e Neurofisiologia Clínica4Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa

Lisboa, Portugal

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Abstract

• The accurate measure of the central temperature is a very important physiologic indicator in several clinical applications, namely, in the characterization and diagnosis of sleep disorders.

• In this work, a simple system is described to continuously measure the body temperature at the ear.

• An electronic temperature sensor is coupled to the microphone of a common commercial auricular Bluetooth device that sends the temperature measurements to a mobile phone to which is paired.

• The measurements are stored at the mobile phone and periodically sent to a medical facility by email or SMS (short messaging service)

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Circadian Cycle of Melatonin Secretion

• Direct measurement of melatonin secretion is difficult and it is only possible in laboratory or medical facilities.

• The most used method to indirectly estimate the circadian rhythm of melatonin secretion is the central body temperature

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System

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Electronic Circuit

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Adaptive Sampling

• Optimize the energy consumption of the auricular and increase its operation time.

• The sampling rate is adaptively estimated according to the evolution of the temperature curve estimated up to the current time.

• The sampling rate increases when the derivative of the signal increases and

• The sampling rate decreases in the slow changes regions

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Adaptive Sampling

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Filtering

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Kalman Filter

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Kalman Filter: missing data

• Filter Sequence

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Experimental Results

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