The paper describes the development of a wireless body area network sensor system to monitor heart-rate variability and quantify stress in military personnel.
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May enable field stress monitoring via HRV; leaves open prospective outcome validation before clinical use.
We are developing personal health monitors based on a wireless body area network (BAN) of intelligent sensors. Individual monitors will be integrated into a distributed wireless system for synchronized monitoring of a group of subjects. This system could be used during the selection process and as part of a psychophysiological evaluation of military members undergoing intense training. We use measures of heart-rate variability to quantify stress level prior to and during training as well as to predict stress resistance. This task requires reliable, high-precision instrumentation and synchronized measurements from a group of individuals over prolonged periods (days of training).
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