Project number
26064
Organization
ACABI
Offering
ENGR498-F2025-S2026
Project Goal/Summary: The goal of this project is to develop a combination camera plus radar system to remotely assess the overall stability, status and vital signs of an individual within a crowd or group using noncontact means. People operate in groups, they congregate at events yet while together a single individual may suddenly become ill, faint, pass out or worse – suffer cardiac arrest with potential death. Presently no system or means exists to assess and surveil a group and instantly determine who within the crowd is at risk of serious health compromise. The present device and system aim at just that – to rapidly identify that individual in a crowd at risk and summon help. CAM-DAR will consist of 1. a group of video cameras which can monitor a defined space where people congregate, 2. a system to analyze and specifically identify camera images to determine who within the crowd shows evidence of altered habitus, posture and imminent compromise (criteria defined), 3. an image tracking, analysis and actuation system to activate and localize a focused mm wave radar system; 4 a mm Wave radar system on an “aim-able” alt-azimuth platform to allow targeting of the at risk individual with radar to determine heart rate, breathing rate and temperature. 5. a Data collection and Heads-up display system with incorporated notification system to allow human-decided or autonomous notification of a first responder. Developing and implementing CAM-DAR will save lives!!
Project Background: People operate in groups, they congregate at events yet while together a single individual may suddenly become ill, faint, pass out or worse – suffer cardiac arrest with potential death. Presently no system or means exist to assess and surveil a group and instantly determine who within the crowd is at risk of serious health compromise. The present device and system aims at just that – to rapidly identify that individual in a crowd at risk and summon help. The motivation for this system stems from the fact that even in hospitals in the emergency room where a family brings an ill family member for rapid care, while the sick individual is instantly attended to, families and people waiting in the waiting room, where there is no monitoring ongoing, often become ill, pass out and have even died without any medical attention. The opportunity for this device exists anywhere people congregate including: waiting rooms in the emergency department, clinics, health offices, radiology suites, dialysis units; and even in non-medical spaces such as theaters, stadiums and beyond.
Requirements: Step1: Get up to speed - Team will research Camera/video population surveillance, image, body and facial analysis; mm wave Radar and remote non-contact vital signs detection. Team will have the benefit of work done this past summer by a range of students under ACABI on this project. Step 2: Design and build video/camera monitoring system with analysis system of body posture – lean, angulation, slumping, fall over or collapse; facial analysis – of compromise and illness. Step 3 – Develop actuation control system where spatial coordinates of the space surveilled are defined, the at risk individual identified (step 2) leading to an actuation signal to aim the mm wave radar system. Step 4 – Build the actuatable pivotable alt-azimuth platform to allow “aim and fire” of the radar system to collect data and analyze the at-risk individual. Step 5 - a mm Wave radar system to allow focused assessment of the individual at risk individual to determine heart rate, breathing rate and temperature. Step 6 - A Data collecting and Heads-up display system with incorporated notification means to allow human-decided or autonomous notification of a first responder.
Project Background: People operate in groups, they congregate at events yet while together a single individual may suddenly become ill, faint, pass out or worse – suffer cardiac arrest with potential death. Presently no system or means exist to assess and surveil a group and instantly determine who within the crowd is at risk of serious health compromise. The present device and system aims at just that – to rapidly identify that individual in a crowd at risk and summon help. The motivation for this system stems from the fact that even in hospitals in the emergency room where a family brings an ill family member for rapid care, while the sick individual is instantly attended to, families and people waiting in the waiting room, where there is no monitoring ongoing, often become ill, pass out and have even died without any medical attention. The opportunity for this device exists anywhere people congregate including: waiting rooms in the emergency department, clinics, health offices, radiology suites, dialysis units; and even in non-medical spaces such as theaters, stadiums and beyond.
Requirements: Step1: Get up to speed - Team will research Camera/video population surveillance, image, body and facial analysis; mm wave Radar and remote non-contact vital signs detection. Team will have the benefit of work done this past summer by a range of students under ACABI on this project. Step 2: Design and build video/camera monitoring system with analysis system of body posture – lean, angulation, slumping, fall over or collapse; facial analysis – of compromise and illness. Step 3 – Develop actuation control system where spatial coordinates of the space surveilled are defined, the at risk individual identified (step 2) leading to an actuation signal to aim the mm wave radar system. Step 4 – Build the actuatable pivotable alt-azimuth platform to allow “aim and fire” of the radar system to collect data and analyze the at-risk individual. Step 5 - a mm Wave radar system to allow focused assessment of the individual at risk individual to determine heart rate, breathing rate and temperature. Step 6 - A Data collecting and Heads-up display system with incorporated notification means to allow human-decided or autonomous notification of a first responder.