CALDEIRA, João M. L. P. [et al.] - Core-body temperature acquisition tools for long-term monitoring and analysis. International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences. ISSN 1942-2660. Vol. 2, nº 3 e 4, 2010. p. 209-218.
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Title
Core-body temperature acquisition tools for long-term monitoring and analysis
Subject
E-Health Biosensor Biofeedback Wireless sensor network Temperature monitoring
The detection of fertile and ovulation periods may
be performed by women’s body temperature variations. These
variations are more accurate if a core-body temperature for
their detection is used. Previous medical studies concluded that
the use of skin temperature could be influenced by
environmental conditions. Since the increasing of the body
temperature in this period is only about 0.5 ºC, it is crucial that
measurements should be the most accurate as possible. Due to
the lack of solutions to realize that in order to measure and
analyze the core-body temperature, this paper presents a
system to capture, display, and monitoring core-body
temperature. It is considered a hardware solution (sensor) to be
placed inside cervix and a computer application to
communicate and gather the collected data by the sensor.
Bluetooth is used to perform the communication between a
computer and the sensor. The system evaluation is performed
by a medical team in several volunteer women. Furthermore,
the collected data by the sensor may be used to study the
relation between temperature variations and women health
conditions.
