IoT-Based Wireless Polysomnography Intelligent System for Sleep Monitoring

Chin Teng Lin, Mukesh Prasad, Chia Hsin Chung, Deepak Puthal, Hesham El-Sayed, Sharmi Sankar, Yu Kai Wang, Jagendra Singh, Arun Kumar Sangaiah

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    Abstract

    Polysomnography (PSG) is considered the gold standard in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The diagnosis of OSA requires an overnight sleep experiment in a laboratory. However, due to limitations in relation to the number of labs and beds available, patients often need to wait a long time before being diagnosed and eventually treated. In addition, the unfamiliar environment and restricted mobility when a patient is being tested with a polysomnogram may disturb their sleep, resulting in an incomplete or corrupted test. Therefore, it is posed that a PSG conducted in the patient's home would be more reliable and convenient. The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a vital role in the e-Health system. In this paper, we implement an IoT-based wireless polysomnography system for sleep monitoring, which utilizes a battery-powered, miniature, wireless, portable, and multipurpose recorder. A Java-based PSG recording program in the personal computer is designed to save several bio-signals and transfer them into the European data format. These PSG records can be used to determine a patient's sleep stages and diagnose OSA. This system is portable, lightweight, and has low power-consumption. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed PSG system, a comparison was made between the standard PSG-Alice 5 Diagnostic Sleep System and the proposed system. Several healthy volunteer patients participated in the PSG experiment and were monitored by both the standard PSG-Alice 5 Diagnostic Sleep System and the proposed system simultaneously, under the supervision of specialists at the Sleep Laboratory in Taipei Veteran General Hospital. A comparison of the results of the time-domain waveform and sleep stage of the two systems shows that the proposed system is reliable and can be applied in practice. The proposed system can facilitate the long-Term tracing and research of personal sleep monitoring at home.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)405-414
    Number of pages10
    JournalIEEE Access
    Volume6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Oct 24 2017

    Keywords

    • Internet of Things
    • Java
    • Polysomnography (PSG)
    • sleep monitoring
    • wireless

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Computer Science
    • General Materials Science
    • General Engineering

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