Unobtrusive Monitoring of Home-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises Using Heterogeneous Sensors

This paper proposes the use of heterogeneous sensors to unobtrusively monitor post-stroke rehabilitation exercises in a home environment. Rehabilitation exercises at home help poststroke sufferers to avoid long queues at health facilities and transportation problems associated with visiting these facilities. Experimental results demonstrated the ability to capture postures from a Heimann HTPA 32x32 thermal sensor, and speed and range during hand-stretching and gait-retraining exercises from a D2G Doppler radar sensor. Plans for future work are also outlined.