mm Wave sensor based patient monitoring from Fujitsu

Digital tranformation technology innovator Fujitsu said it has successfully developed a new technology to accurately estimate postures of the human body from coarse-grained point cloud data obtained with a conventional millimeter-wave sensor. This technology to help hospital and nursing staff, and patient care takers to visually monitor patients and act in case of emergency such as falling of patients. While using artificially intelligency based models, accurate estimations of postures of the human body can be made. The movement of patient and the behaviour is analysed using millimeter wave sensors without using privacy invading cameras. Fujitsu to conduct field trials with hospitals and nursing care facilities to verify the effectiveness and improve the accuracy of the new technology with the aim to offer it as a service to the Japanese market by the end of FY 2023. Using of millimeter wave sensors in this type of solution is said to be less casting and protect the privacy of patients. However there is an issue with millimeterwave sensors when it comes to accuracy. To address this issue Fujitsu has developed a technology that enables expansion from coarse-grained point cloud data to fine-grained point cloud data necessary for an accurate posture estimation by fusing time series information of point cloud data in a series of movements of the human body. mmWave sensors...