SBIR Phase I: Advanced Tracking Device for Patients with Cognitive Impairments

SBIR 第一阶段：针对认知障碍患者的先进跟踪设备

• 批准号: 0740430
• 负责人: Robert Chin
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fabrico Technology Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0740430&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Advanced; Tracking; Device

This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I research develops technologies to address the increased demands on both families of and institutions serving patients with cognitive and physical impairments to monitor and track patients. Wandering is a common problem in people with dementia. This research expands exisiting system technology to provide monitoring and tracking that covers an area over 0.5 square miles. This will be done by integrating pseudo-Doppler antenna array and direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technologies to greatly enhance the range and accuracy of the present Directional Antenna /Digital Compass based technology. The broader impacts of this research will be to provide technologies that replace human supervision of caregivers of patients with dementia or cognitive impairment, thereby reducing the burden on health care providers and family and improving the quality of life of the patient.

这项小型企业创新研究第一阶段的研究开发了技术，以满足为认知和身体障碍患者提供服务的家庭和机构对监测和跟踪患者的日益增长的需求。走神是痴呆症患者的常见问题。这项研究扩展了现有的系统技术，以提供覆盖0.5平方英里的区域的监控和跟踪。这将通过将伪多普勒天线阵和直接序列扩频(DSSS)技术相结合来实现，以极大地提高目前基于定向天线/数字罗盘的技术的范围和精度。这项研究的更广泛影响将是提供技术，取代人类对痴呆症或认知障碍患者的照顾者的监督，从而减轻医疗保健提供者和家庭的负担，并提高患者的生活质量。