Internet of things for sleep quality monitoring system: A survey
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Introduction
- In the recent years, internet-of-things (IoT) has become a popular subject in electronics and communication research field.
- The system based on the concept of IoT has been developed in many fields, e.g. industrial automation [7]-[8], smart-city [9], smart-farming [10], many more applications.
- Secondly, the authors review the significance of sleep quality and sleep disorder and the monitoring aspect.
II. SLEEP QUALITY AND THE MONITORING
- These stages progress in cyclic manner, from stage 1 to REM sleep, then the cycle starts over again with stage 1.
- People can easily be awaken in these stages.
- People spend almost half of their total sleep time in stage 2 sleep, 20% in REM sleep, the remaining time in other stages.
- The problem of sleep disorder is usually associated with the irregularity in sleep cycles.
A. Sleep Disorder
- Sleep diorder potentially increases the risk of chronic diseases, mental problem, and number of accident.
- Narcolepsy is a medical diorder when a patient has frequent ”sleep attack” moments at different times of the day, even if they have had a sufficient sleep at the night before.
- It begins or worsens during resting period and becoming worse at night.
- Sleep apnea occurs because the throat is shrinked during sleep that makes the patients get difficulty to breath during their sleep.
- The chest is moving, trying to pump the air to the lungs, but the air could not flow through the throat completely.
B. Sleep Quality Monitoring
- Many physiological parameters can be monitored during sleep in order to gain insight about the sleep quality of the patient.
- The monitoring method is performed by placing some sensor modules close to various body organs of the patient.
- Polysomnography is a comprehensive recording of phys- iological changes that occur during sleep, which includes brain activity, heart ryhtm, eye-movement, and skeletal muscle activation [20].
- – Eye movement is measured with electrooculogram (EOG).
- This section discusses about the IoT architecture, the components, and the logical flowchart of the sleep quality monitoring system.
B. Data Acquisition System
- Data acquisition system consists of sleep monitoring sensor and the connection.
- The authors have discussed about the type of sleep monitoring sensor in subsection II-B.
- The wireless connection module is usually integrated into an embedded system.
- The type of connection used for health monitoring is usually wireless local area network (WLAN) or wireless body area network (WBAN).
- BLE achieves higher energy efficiency in terms of ratio of energy per bit transmitted compared to ZigBee [30].
C. Data Concentrator/Aggregator
- The data concentrator usually comes in the form of mobile phone of the patient that contains application connected to the wireless sensor.
- In case the resource in mobile phone could not support the application, cloudlet can be used as data aggregator [32].
- The cloudlet can be local processing unit and temporary storage prior communication to cloud service in internet.
- The cloudlet can also be used to run time critical tasks in monitoring application.
E. Monitoring Application
- The result of data sensing and processing will be reported to caregivers or relatives of the patient through mobile application.
- The data will be displayed in form of live data streaming, data history, data analysis from the history, and the warning signal.
- The data streaming gives a real-time live medical data of the patient, e.g. heart rate, respiration rate, etc.
- All the recorded data is stored by cloud server to keep the history of the patient.
- Based on recorded history, application performs an analysis of patient sleep quality.
A. Future Research Trend
- There are several open issues and challenges for sleep quality monitoring with IoT concepts.
- It is not appropriate for regular monitoring method at home because of the lack of conveninence and troublesome setup.
- Two unobtrusive methods, i.e., Actigraphy and BCG might appear as the promissing candidate for this problem.
- Reliable MAC and routing protocol must support multihop communications, low end-to-end delay, low packet-delay, and low-power communication.
- Secondly, the security of handling IoT big data is also important.
B. Future Research Plan
- The embedded system consists of some components as mentioned below 1) contactless ballistocardiography sensor 3) WiFi transceiver A WiFi transceiver is used to transmit the acquired data from the embedded system to cloud server for storage and processing .
- The result of data processing will be reported to caregivers through mobile application.
- The warning signal indicates an irregularity in user condition that requires an immediate action.
V. CONCLUSION
- Sleep quality is one of main factor to determine human health and well-being.
- Sleep quality monitoring is one the solution to maintain the quality of sleep and prevents chronic diseases, mental problem, or accidents caused by sleep disorder.
- The emergence of IoT technology offers a great solution for real-time and continous monitoring system due its M2M nature and high capacity cloud storage and processing.
- The authors have also proposed an architecture and workflow for sleep quality monitoring based on IoT concept.
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Frequently Asked Questions (21)
Q2. What have the authors contributed in "Internet of things for sleep quality monitoring system: a survey" ?
The emergence of internet-ofthings technology has provided a promising opportunity to build a reliable sleep quality monitoring system by leveraging the rapid improvement of sensor and mobile technology. This paper presents the literature study about internet of things for sleep quality monitoring systems. The study is started from the review of sleep quality problem, the importance of sleep quality monitoring, the enabling internet of things technology, and the open issues in this field. Finally, their future research plan for sleep apnea monitoring is presented.
Q3. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Internet of things for sleep quality monitoring system: a survey" ?
To answer the user-friendly challenge in sleep quality monitoring system as described by subsection IV-A, their future research plan is to propose a contactless sleep apnea monitoring system based on the concept of internet of things. The result of data processing will be reported to caregivers through mobile application. The data will be displayed in form of live data streaming, data history, data analysis from the history, and the warning signal.
Q4. What is the main concern for the IoT system?
since resource (memoryand power) has become main constraint for IoT system, therefore the data security system should be designed to maximize security level while minimizing resource utilization.
Q5. What are the physiological parameters of sleep apnea?
The physiological parameters include heart rate, respiration rate and amplitude, central nervous system activity, muscular activity, etc.
Q6. What are the components of the architecture for sleep quality monitoring?
There are four components of the architecture, i.e. data acquisition system, data concentrator/aggregator, cloud storage/processing, and monitoring applications.
Q7. What is the way to monitor sleep quality?
Sensitive data, e.g. patient identity, location based services, real-time monitoring status can be carried out on private server to guarantee the security.
Q8. What is the type of connection used for health monitoring?
The type of connection used for health monitoring is usually wireless local area network (WLAN) or wireless body area network (WBAN).
Q9. What are the uses of the signal recordings?
The signal recordings can be utilized for e.g. detecting sleep staging, detecting various sleep disorders, and other analysis applications.•
Q10. What are the main concerns for the IoT monitoring system?
Since there are many sensitive informa-tions, e.g. patient identity, medical data, patients location are involved in this system.
Q11. What is the common form of data concentrator?
The data concentrator usually comes in the form of mobile phone of the patient that contains application connected to the wireless sensor.
Q12. What is the main purpose of sleep monitoring?
Sleep quality monitoring is one the solution to maintain the quality of sleep and prevents chronic diseases, mental problem, or accidents caused by sleep disorder.
Q13. What is the process of transmitting medical data to network?
Medical data from sensor is then transmitted to network through intermediate data concentrator/aggregator, which is typically a smart phone that is located around the patient.
Q14. What is the main factor to determine human health and well-being?
The warning signal indicates an irregularity in user condition that requires an immediate actionSleep quality is one of main factor to determine human health and well-being.
Q15. What is the main concern for the IoT monitoring system?
a study reports that the existing routing protocols can work with minor modifications in IoT scenarios [2], IETF ROLL workgroup claims that the existing protocol, e.g. OSPF, AODV, OLSR does not satisfy the lossy networks specific routing and low power requirements in their present form.
Q16. What is the main concern for the sleep quality monitoring system?
The sleep quality sensor generates huge amounts of medical data continuously and there is a need to securely store such data, without compromising privacy, integrity, and confidentiality of the data.
Q17. What is the importance of a sleep quality monitoring method?
In sleep quality monitoring, it is important to do measurement or monitoring that does not disturb the convenience of the sleeping patient.
Q18. What is the definition of a polysomnography?
Polysomnography is a comprehensive recording of phys-iological changes that occur during sleep, which includes brain activity, heart ryhtm, eye-movement, and skeletal muscle activation [20].
Q19. What is the definition of sleep disorder?
As defined by William H. Moorcroft in his book, sleep is a reversible behavioral state when people have low attention to the environment.
Q20. What is the purpose of this research plan?
To answer the user-friendly challenge in sleep quality monitoring system as described by subsection IV-A, their future research plan is to propose a contactless sleep apnea monitoring system based on the concept of internet of things.
Q21. What is the purpose of the warning signal?
Whenever it is analyzed that there is an irregularity in patient condition then the warning signal is released to notify caregivers and relatives to give an immediate action to the patient.