A Silicon Valley start-up, Bam Labs, has devised a health-care
monitor that does its work unobtrusively from beneath the patient's
mattress—no wires needed.
A thin inflatable pad contains motion
sensors that are acute enough to pick up heartbeats and breathing
patterns, not to mention the movements that signal sleeplessness or
leaving the bed (dangerous, for some feeble patients). The sensors
wirelessly transmit the readings to a nearby networking device, which
forwards them to cloud-based servers; from there, caregivers can get the
information on smartphones or computers.
BAM Labs' Touch-free Life Care System
can even pick up the symptoms of sleep apnea—a malady for which
patients often fail to report symptoms—and could cut down on false
alarms when patients get tangled in monitor wires.
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