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- Core-body temperature acquisition tools for long-term monitoring and analysisPublication . Caldeira, J.M.L.P.; Moutinho, José Fonseca; Rodrigues, Joel; Gilg, Marc; Lorenz, PascalThe detection of fertile and ovulation periods may be performed by women’s body temperature variations. These variations are more accurate if a core-body temperature for their detection is used. Previous medical studies concluded that the use of skin temperature could be influenced by environmental conditions. Since the increasing of the body temperature in this period is only about 0.5 ºC, it is crucial that measurements should be the most accurate as possible. Due to the lack of solutions to realize that in order to measure and analyze the core-body temperature, this paper presents a system to capture, display, and monitoring core-body temperature. It is considered a hardware solution (sensor) to be placed inside cervix and a computer application to communicate and gather the collected data by the sensor. Bluetooth is used to perform the communication between a computer and the sensor. The system evaluation is performed by a medical team in several volunteer women. Furthermore, the collected data by the sensor may be used to study the relation between temperature variations and women health conditions.
- Intra-body temperature monitoring using a biofeedback solutionPublication . Caldeira, J.M.L.P.; Moutinho, José Fonseca; Vaidya, Binod; Lorenz, Pascal; Rodrigues, JoelBody Area Sensor can enable healthcare monitoring in an unobtrusive way. Medical and healthcare research has been striving to find relationships between core body temperature at female genitals and certain health conditions, such as ovulation period. This paper presents a solution for intra-body temperature monitoring based on a new intra-body sensor, communication and desktop application tool. This new biosensor provides data collection that may be used to study the relation between temperature variations and women health conditions, such as, ovulation period (for both natural contraception and in vitro fertilization purposes) among others. The motivation for this work focuses on the creation of this e-Health solution that will fill the gap we realize in medical technology. The proposal was tested and validated by a medical team and it was concluded that this new biosensor performs perfectly.
- Toward ubiquitous mobility solutions for body sensor networks on healthcarePublication . Caldeira, J.M.L.P.; Rodrigues, Joel; Lorenz, PascalToward ubiquitous mobility solutions for body sensor networks on healthcare