Bonsai: cough monitoring device

Research Line

Smart wearables

Over 7% of the global population lives with a chronic respiratory disorder, which can significantly detriment individuals' quality of life by impairing sleep quality, contributing to anxiety, and increasing medical expenditures. Our work leverages noninvasive wearable biosensing tecnhologies and novel edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to continuously monitor patients with such disorders throughout their daily lives. Our wearable device monitors patients' symptoms (i.e. coughing, wheezing) and analyzes breathing dynamics in order to provide valuable medical insights. Our edge AI algorithms both preserve patients' privacy by ensuring that none of their sensitive biodata ever leaves the device, and enable a long battery lifetime.

Keywords
Respiratory disorders, Chronic cough, Continuous patient monitoring, Edge Artificial Intelligent, Wearable medical devices

Team

  Albini Stefano
  Atienza Alonso David - Supervisor
  Orlandic Lara - Researcher
  Teijeiro Campo Tomas - Project coordinator deputy
  Thevenot Jérôme Paul Rémy - Project coordinator deputy
  Zhang Wensi

Research Partners

CHUV (Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois) CHUV

Prototype of the BONSAI wearable respiratory disorder monitoring device
Prototype of the BONSAI wearable respiratory disorder monitoring device






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