The Universities of Bristol, Southhampton and Reading have launched their long anticipated continuous monitoring Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment (SPHERE). The system will detect overnight or mini-strokes by noticing small changes in behavior or expression. It can be used to identify the early stages of heart disease, dementia, diabetes, depression and obesity, or to prevent falls in seniors. A key part of the project will be producing “passive sensors” embedded in clothing or jewelry.
The goal is not to develop new sensor technologies for individual health conditions, but to impact these healthcare needs simultaneously through data fusion and pattern recognition from a common platform. The platform will be low-cost and accessible.
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