If you wanted to check someone’s pulse from across the room, for example to remotely monitor an elderly relative, how could you do it? You might think it’s impossible, because common health-monitoring devices such as fingertip pulse oximeters and smartwatches have to be in contact with the body.
However, researchers are developing technologies that can monitor a person’s vital signs at a distance. One of those technologies is radar.
Professor of Electrical Engineering Aly Fathy and Chandler Bauder of U.S. Naval Research are electrical engineers who study radar systems. They combined advances in radar technology and artificial intelligence to reliably monitor breathing and heart rate without contacting the body. Read more about their research at The Conversation.
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