Intra-body temperature monitoring using a biofeedback solution

• Author(s): Caldeira, João M. L. P. ; Moutinho, José A. F. ; Vaidya, Binod ; Lorenz, Pascal ; Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C.
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/521
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Subject(s): Biosensor; Wireless sensor network; Biofeedback; e-Health; Temperature Monitoring
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

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“Copyright © [2010] IEEE. Reprinted from 2nd International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine . ISBN: 978-0-7695-3950-8. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to [e-mail]. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.” Body Area Sensor can enable healthcare monitoring in an unobtrusive way. Medical and healthcare research has been striving to find relationships between core body temperature at female genitals and certain health conditions, such as ovulation period. This paper presents a solution for intra-body temperature monitoring based on a new intra-body sensor, communication and desktop application tool. This new biosensor provides data collection that may be used to study the relation between temperature variations and women health conditions, such as, ovulation period (for both natural contraception and in vitro fertilization purposes) among others. The motivation for this work focuses on the creation of this e-Health solution that will fill the gap we realize in medical technology. The proposal was tested and validated by a medical team and it was concluded that this new biosensor performs perfectly.