Respiratory Rate Monitoring Via a Fibre Bragg Grating-Embedded Respirator Mask with a Wearable Miniature Interrogator

Overview

Journal Sensors (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2024 Dec 17

PMID 39686013

Authors

Nat Limweshasin

Itzel Avila Castro

Serhiy Korposh

Stephen P Morgan

Barrie R Hayes-Gill

Mark A Faghy

Ricardo Correia

Affiliations

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Abstract

A respiration rate (RR) monitoring system was created by integrating a Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fibre sensor into a respirator mask. The system exploits the sensitivity of an FBG to temperature to identify an individual's RR by measuring airflow temperature variation near the nostrils and mouth. To monitor the FBG response, a portable, battery-powered, wireless miniature interrogator system was developed to replace a relatively bulky benchtop interrogator used in previous studies. A healthy volunteer study was conducted to evaluate the performance of the developed system (10 healthy volunteers). Volunteers were asked to perform normal breathing whilst simultaneously wearing the system and a reference spirometer for 120 s. Individual breaths are then identified using a peak detection algorithm. The result showed that the number of breaths detected by both devices matched exactly (100%) across all volunteer trials.

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