Low-cost circuits for short-range radar for remote health monitoring

TransRobotics公司试图部署先进的微型雷达系统，远程监控老年人等高危人群的健康状况。这些系统不需要用户参与，但会收集受试者详细的长期健康记录。这些数据记录包括受试者在其生活空间中的存在、位置和姿势，以及临床级别的生命体征，如心脏和呼吸活动。这种监测将使患者更早地从医院返回，同时保持安全和防止再入院。老年用户还可以安全地呆在家中，而不需要经常前往医院或其他卫生保健机构。上述项目研究了可与我们专有雷达技术一起使用的有源和无源电路。为了完善这个系统，我们还必须在调查中加入天线。同样的低成本制造技术将用于测试和表征各种类型的天线以及将它们连接到系统其他部分的结构。除了简单地实现完整雷达系统的低成本制造外，这将使我们在系统配置方面具有额外的灵活性，以适应客户的需求。具体来说，它将允许我们设计更紧凑的系统，大部分电路在印刷电路板的一侧，天线在另一侧，耦合结构穿过电路板。

TransRobotics seeks to deploy advanced micro-radar systems to remotely monitor the health of at-risk individuals, such as the elderly. These systems will require no interaction by the user, but will collect detailed long-term records of the health of the subjects. These data records include the presence, position and posture of the subject in their living space as well as clinical-grade vital signs, such as cardiac and breathing activity. This monitoring will allow patients to return from hospital far earlier while maintaining safety and preventing readmission. Elderly users can also remain in their home safely without the need to travel to hospitals or other health care facilities as often.The above project investigated active and passive circuits that can be used with our proprietary radar technology. To complete the system, we must also add antennas to the investigation. The same low-cost manufacturing techniques will be used to test and characterize various types of antennas and the structures that connect them to the other parts of the system. In addition to simply enabling low-cost manufacturing of complete radar systems, this will give us additional flexibility in the configuration of the system to adapt to the needs of the customer. Specifically, it will allow us to design the systems to be more compact, with the majority of the circuitry on one side of a printed circuit board and the antennas on the other, with coupling structures that pass through the board.