483 results about "Long term monitoring" patented technology

Methods and systems for long term monitoring of one or more physiological parameters such as respiration, heart rate, body temperature, electrical heart activity, blood oxygenation, blood flow velocity, blood pressure, intracranial pressure, the presence of emboli in the blood stream and electrical brain activity are provided. Data is acquired non-invasively using ambulatory data acquisition techniques.

The present invention relates to a physiological monitoring device. Some embodiments of the invention allow for long-term monitoring of physiological signals. Further embodiments may also allow for the monitoring of secondary signals such as motion.

A method and a system for detection of an arrhythmia, the method comprising determining a number of heart beat intervals; determining an instantaneous heart rate for each of the heart beat intervals; determining the variability of the instantaneous heart rates compared to a mean of the number of instantaneous heart rates; determining a non-linear value that represents the variability of the instantaneous heart rates; and detecting the arrhythmia by comparing the non-linear value with a predetermined threshold.

A system and method for long-term monitoring of cardiac conditions such as arrhythmias is disclosed. The invention includes a pulse generator including means for sensing an arrhythmia. The pulse generator is coupled to at least one subcutaneous electrode or electrode array for providing electrical stimulation such as cardioversion / defibrillation shocks and / or pacing pulses. The electrical stimulation may be provided between multiple subcutaneous electrodes, or between one or more such electrodes and the housing of the pulse generator. In one embodiment, the pulse generator includes one or more electrodes that are isolated from the can. These electrodes may be used to sense cardiac signals.

The present invention provides methods and systems for improving clinical trials of experimental therapies. The present invention uses minimally invasive, leadless implantable devices that facilitate long term monitoring of a physiological signal (e.g., neural signals) from a patient population which may provide an indication of the effect of the experimental therapy on the patient population. In preferred embodiments, neural signals are sampled from the patients in the patient population with an externally powered, leadless implanted device and are transmitted to an external device for further processing.

The present invention provides systems and methods for ambulatory, long term monitoring of a physiological signal from a patient. At least a portion of the systems of the present invention may be implanted within the patient in a minimally invasive manner. In preferred embodiments, brain activity signals are sampled from the patient with an externally powered leadless implanted device and are transmitted to a handheld patient communication device for further processing.

A system and method for long-term monitoring of cardiac conditions such as arrhythmias is disclosed. The invention includes a pulse generator including means for sensing an arrhythmia. The pulse generator is coupled to at least one subcutaneous electrode or electrode array for providing electrical stimulation such as cardioversion / defibrillation shocks and / or pacing pulses. The electrical stimulation may be provided between multiple subcutaneous electrodes, or between one or more such electrodes and the housing of the pulse generator. In one embodiment, the pulse generator includes one or more electrodes that are isolated from the can. These electrodes may be used to sense cardiac signals.

A low cost system and method are provided for long-term monitoring of the quality of a building structure utilizing a semiconductor integrated circuit device buried in the structure. A monitoring chip includes a sensor, a microprocessor, a memory, a radio interface, an electric power controller and an electric power generator. The monitoring chip intermittently receives power to intermittently monitor information such as whether concrete is adequately cured, whether the quantity of moisture and chloride ions in concrete paste is adequate, or whether a state of stress inside concrete is in question. Temperature sensors, electric resistance sensors and pressure sensors respectively built in the monitoring chip use the built-in electric power generator as a power source, and the system store any abnormal measured values in a built-in memory. Collected quality data is transmitted according to an external request to indicate building structure quality.

The invention discloses a multi-parameter identification based secondary system fault diagnosing method for an intelligent substation. The multi-parameter identification based secondary system fault diagnosing method is mainly applicable to digital substation accordant with IEC61850 communication protocol. The method includes: comprehensively analyzing multi-dimensional parameters including various alarm information, telemeasuring data, telecommand states and the like of a process layer, a spacer layer, a station control layer through a network message recording and analyzing device, monitoring states of secondary devices in real time by utilizing original messages as analysis data and utilizing recording of transient state of device exception and long-term monitoring of operation states as means, and realizing fault diagnosis and state monitoring of the secondary system of the intelligent substation. The multi-parameter identification based secondary system fault diagnosing method for the intelligent substation has the advantages in two aspects including that normal states of the secondary device of the intelligent substation can be monitored, background data and maintenance reference are provided for state maintenance; exception states are identified, quick fault diagnosis is realized, effective instruction can be provided for transport maintenance, and convenience in maintenance of the substation is improved.

A tissue-implantable sensor for measurement of solutes in fluids and gases, such as oxygen and glucose, is provided. The sensor includes: i) a detector array including at least one detector; ii) a telemetry transmission portal; iii) an electrical power source; and iv) circuitry electrically connected to the detector array including signal processing means for determining an analyte level, such as glucose level, in a body fluid contacting the detectors. The sensor components are disposed in a hermetically sealed housing having a size and shape suitable for comfortable, safe, and unobtrusive subcutaneous implantation allowing for in vivo detection and long term monitoring of tissue glucose concentrations by wireless telemetry.

Described herein are microelectrode array devices, and methods of fabrication and use of the same, to provide highly localized and efficient electrical stimulation of a neurological target. The device includes multiple microelectrode elements arranged along an elongated probe shaft. The microelectrode elements are dimensioned and shaped so as to target individual neurons, groups of neurons, and neural tissue as may be located in an animal nervous system, such as deep within a human brain. Beneficially, the neurological probe can be used to facilitate location of the neurological target and remain implanted for long-term monitoring and / or stimulation.

A plurality of electrodes for measuring electrocardiogarphic waveforms are attached on body surface positions that constitute a subset of the standard 12-lead system. The measured electrocardiogarphic waveforms of said subset of said standard 12-lead system are used to calculate the electrocardiogarphic waveforms of remaining leads in the said standard 12-lead system. The measured and calculated electrocardiographic waveforms are synthesized to form a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. The invention is capable of monitoring the 12-lead electrocardiogram with reduced number of electrodes, wherein a portion of waveforms are directly measured and used as primary information for diagnosing heart disease, and the other portion of waveforms are derived from the measured leads and are used as a secondary information for improving the accuracy of diagnosis. The invention is especially useful in monitoring ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction in cases where mounting and maintaining ten electrodes to obtain 12-lead electrocardiogram is difficult, such as in ambulatory monitoring, long-term monitoring and home monitoring.

A method and apparatus for detection of spark activity in an electrical machine having a shaft, wherein at least one of the shaft voltage and the shaft current is measured and analyzed for components which are characteristic of spark activity. The method uses the shaft voltages and / or shaft currents which are normally generally regarded only as being damaging has been found to be accurate and to be suitable for long-term monitoring of spark activities such as brush sparking, spark erosion, spark flashovers between parts of the shaft bearings and can be implemented physically very easily and in a reliable manner, since the existing grounding devices are used.

The invention provides an automatic inspection type layered settlement instrument. A conduit connection ring is arranged out of a conduit joint, and a conduit sealing head is mounted at the bottom end of a conduit; a settlement ring is arranged out of the conduit, a magnet ring is mounted in the settlement ring, and folding and unfolding anchoring iron sheets are installed out of the settlement ring; the upper end of the conduit is provided with a measuring box, a magnetic induction measuring probe is mounted in the conduit and is connected with a fine cable, the upper end of the fine cable is connected with an electric settlement amount measuring apparatus which is connected with a measurement and control and wireless transmission apparatus, and the measurement and control and wireless transmission apparatus is connected with a radio transmit-receive antenna and further connected with a hand-held monitoring apparatus located out of the measuring box through a signal cable. The automatic inspection type layered settlement instrument is used for long-term monitoring of layered settlement of a soft soil foundation on the land and has the advantages of easy and convenient installation, low cost, high monitoring precision and sensitivity and capacity of automatically monitoring settlement amount of each soil layer to be measured; automatic unmanned monitoring and data acquisition are realized because of automatic wireless transmission of monitoring data to a remote receiver, and the hand-held monitoring apparatus can also be used on site for reception of the monitoring data and real time detection.

The invention relates to an intelligent diagnosis method for bridge telescopic seam injury based on girder end longitudinal displacement. The long-term monitoring data of main girder longitudinal displacement, temperature and vertical acceleration after a bridge is built are obtained by mounting a small number of sensors on the bridge; a relevance model of the main girder longitudinal displacement, the bridge temperature and the vertical acceleration in a healthy state is established step by step; the influence of the main girder temperature and the vertical acceleration on the longitudinal displacement can be eliminated on the basis of the relevance model, and the environment condition uniformization displacement which can reflect a working state of a telescopic seam is obtained. When the method is applied to the injury diagnosis of the telescopic seam, the monitoring data in an unknown state are processed just by adopting the established relevance model, and finally, the environment condition uniformization displacement of the healthy state and the unknown state is simultaneously input into a mean value control map; and if the telescopic seam generates injury, a sample point of the control map can exceed a control line, thereby realizing the intelligent recognition on the injury of the telescopic seam.

The invention discloses an ultrasound bone density measuring and analyzing system. The system comprises an ultrasound parameter measuring apparatus, a communication interface and a human machine interaction device, wherein the ultrasound parameter measuring apparatus comprises transmitting unit consisting of a pulse generator, a high-voltage pulse excitation module and a transmitting probe, an ultrasound receiving unit consisting of a receiving probe, a simulation pretreatment module, a gain adjustable amplifier, a phrase comparator, a high-speed ADC and an asynchronous FIFO, and a central processor, a power supply control module and a structural body. the human machine interaction device controls the ultrasound parameter measuring apparatus through the communication interface to measure the width of a calcaneus of a detected person, the transmission speed of an ultrasound wave in the calcaneus, broadband ultrasonic attenuation to calculate the bone intensity indexes and the bone density, so a medical report can be made according to diagnostic standards of osteoporosis and a special data base can be built for long term use. The system adopts wet or dry coupling and other technologies to improve the precision and accuracy of measure and has the advantages of easy carrying, low cost, no damage caused by radiation and can be use in long term monitoring of bone condition of the detected person.

A wireless transmitted electrocardiogram monitoring device is disclosed. A conductive fabric of the device features on that it is used to be a sensing component with characters of comfort, air permeability, softness, and stretchability thus achieves long-term signal measurement. The processing and transmission method of electrocardiogram signals is characterized in the wireless transmission of the electrocardiogram signals being detected. The signal receiving component (part) is for collecting data, displaying, storage, output and calculation of values. Therefore, a wireless transmitted electrocardiogram monitoring device is applied for long-term monitoring of the physical status of users.

A system for evaluating health, wellness and fitness, and in particular, to a system that uses an ultrasound transducer to accurately measure fat thickness at a plurality of sites on the human body, records these measurements for long term monitoring, and based on the plurality of measurements calculates the total body composition. The system includes a central control unit to analyze the measurement and display the results in a variety of formats.

Methods and systems for long term monitoring of one or more physiological parameters such as respiration, heart rate, body temperature, electrical heart activity, blood oxygenation, blood flow velocity, blood pressure, intracranial pressure, the presence of emboli in the blood stream and electrical brain activity are provided. Data is acquired non-invasively using ambulatory data acquisition techniques.

A plurality of electrodes for measuring electrocardiogarphic waveforms are attached on body surface positions that constitute a subset of the standard 12-lead system. The measured electrocardiogarphic waveforms of said subset of said standard 12-lead system are used to calculate the electrocardiogarphic waveforms of remaining leads in the said standard 12-lead system. The measured and calculated electrocardiographic waveforms are synthesized to form a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. The invention is capable of monitoring the 12-lead electrocardiogram with a reduced number of electrodes, wherein a portion of waveforms are directly measured and used as primary information for diagnosing heart disease, and the other portion of waveforms are derived from the measured leads and are used as a secondary information for improving the accuracy of diagnosis. The invention is especially useful in monitoring ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction in cases where mounting and maintaining ten electrodes to obtain 12-lead electrocardiogram is difficult, such as in ambulatory monitoring, long-term monitoring and home monitoring.

The invention provides a wearable electrocardiosignal monitoring and processing method and device. Flexible fabric electrocardioelectrodes and a central control box are embedded into an elastic chest belt. The central controller comprises an electrocardiosignal collecting and conditioning unit, a signal processing unit, a data storage unit, a power unit and a wireless communication unit. The signal processing unit carries out filtering, feature extraction and analysis of the heart abnormal change state on the electrocardiosignal collected, amplified and filtered preliminarily by the collecting and conditioning unit. The signal waveform and the analysis result are sent to personal digital management equipment like a mobile phone of a user through the wireless communication unit and can be sent to a remote doctor through a network, and the doctor analyzes the illness state and feeds back medical suggestions and matters needing attentions to the user. The wearable electrocardiosignal monitoring device has the advantages of being comfortable to wear, light, small in size, low in cost and the like, long-term monitoring is facilitated under the conditions of daily life, study, activities and the like, and the intelligent diagnosis and feedback treatment of the heart state are achieved.

A peripheral nerve stimulator can be used to stimulate a peripheral nerve to treat essential tremor, Parkinsonian tremor, and other forms of tremor. The stimulator can have electrodes that are placed circumferentially around the patient's wrist or arm. Specific nerves in the wrist or arm can be targeted by appropriate spacing of the electrodes. Positioning the electrodes on generally opposing sides of the target nerve can result in improved stimulation of the nerve. The stimulation pattern may alternate between the nerves. Improved stimulation algorithms can incorporate tremor feedback, external data, predictive adaptation, and long-term monitoring data.

The invention discloses an online monitoring, analysis and evaluation system of an electric vehicle charging station. The system comprises collecting terminal units, a vehicle-mounted terminal unit, an FPGA (field programmable gate array) and PCI (peripheral component interconnect) interface unit and an embedded industrial personal computer; a plurality of the collecting terminal units and the embedded industrial personal computer constitute an electric vehicle charging station online monitoring platform which is used for collecting a point of common connection of the charging station as well as voltage and current of each charger; the FPGA and PCI interface unit is used for realizing data exchange of the plurality of the collecting terminal units and the industrial personal computer; the vehicle-mounted terminal unit transmits information about changing and the operation state of an electric vehicle to the embedded industrial personal computer; and comprehensive evaluation on states of the electric vehicle is performed with a radar map method, and probability distribution of the initial charging time, the initial charge state and a daily travelled distance is counted and analyzed. The system is stable and reliable, can realize long-term monitoring of the charging station, and provides a large quantity of reliable monitoring data for operation and planning of the charging station.

This invention relates to application technical field of satellite remote-sensing data, specifically a satellite remote-sensing monitoring method of daytime marine fog. This invention gradually eliminates cloudless marine region, ice-phase cloud system, large-particle cloud system, top coarse cloud system and lower cloud system through steps as cloud-ground separation, phase discrimination, particle size judgment, image characteristic analysis, height analysis and error correction based on physical characteristics and image characteristics of marine fog and according to type of fog as ground object and satellite image characteristics, thereby realizing satellite remote-sensing monitoring of daytime marine fog. As for channel settings of AVHRR3 / NOAA17 satellite, according to monitoring result acquired by performing long-term monitoring to the Yellow sea and the Bohai sea in China, it proves that this invention is able to effectively and automatically monitor marine fog events, and clearly provide influence covering range of marine fog, thereby providing meterorological information service to naval navigation, fisheries production and coastal domestic use. In addition, this invention is applicable to other satellite sensors with similar channel settings.

The present invention relates to a physiological monitoring device. Some embodiments of the invention allow for long-term monitoring of physiological signals. Further embodiments may also allow for the monitoring of secondary signals such as motion.