Driver Status Monitoring System with Body Channel Communication Technique Using Conductive Thread Electrodes

Beomjin YUK; Byeongseol KIM; Soohyun YOON; Seungbeom CHOI; Joonsung BAE

doi:10.1587/transcom.2021EBP3059

Driver Status Monitoring System with Body Channel Communication Technique Using Conductive Thread Electrodes

Beomjin YUK, Byeongseol KIM, Soohyun YOON, Seungbeom CHOI, Joonsung BAE

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This paper presents a driver status monitoring (DSM) system with body channel communication (BCC) technology to acquire the driver's physiological condition. Specifically, a conductive thread, the receiving electrode, is sewn to the surface of the seat so that the acquired signal can be continuously detected. As a signal transmission medium, body channel characteristics using the conductive thread electrode were investigated according to the driver's pose and the material of the driver's pants. Based on this, a BCC transceiver was implemented using an analog frequency modulation (FM) scheme to minimize the additional circuitry and system cost. We analyzed the heart rate variability (HRV) from the driver's electrocardiogram (ECG) and displayed the heart rate and Root Mean Square of Successive Differences (RMSSD) values together with the ECG waveform in real-time. A prototype of the DSM system with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology was implemented and tested. We verified that the proposed approach was robust to the driver's movements, showing the feasibility and validity of the DSM with BCC technology using a conductive thread electrode.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E105-B No.3 pp.318-325

Publication Date: 2022/03/01

Publicized: 2021/09/24

Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2021EBP3059

Type of Manuscript: PAPER

Category: Wireless Communication Technologies

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Beomjin YUK
  Kangwon National University
Byeongseol KIM
  Kangwon National University
Soohyun YOON
  Kangwon National University
Seungbeom CHOI
  Kangwon National University
Joonsung BAE
  Kangwon National University

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body area network, body channel communication, conductive thread, electrocardiogram, heart rate variability

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Beomjin YUK, Byeongseol KIM, Soohyun YOON, Seungbeom CHOI, Joonsung BAE, "Driver Status Monitoring System with Body Channel Communication Technique Using Conductive Thread Electrodes" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E105-B, no. 3, pp. 318-325, March 2022, doi: 10.1587/transcom.2021EBP3059.
Abstract: This paper presents a driver status monitoring (DSM) system with body channel communication (BCC) technology to acquire the driver's physiological condition. Specifically, a conductive thread, the receiving electrode, is sewn to the surface of the seat so that the acquired signal can be continuously detected. As a signal transmission medium, body channel characteristics using the conductive thread electrode were investigated according to the driver's pose and the material of the driver's pants. Based on this, a BCC transceiver was implemented using an analog frequency modulation (FM) scheme to minimize the additional circuitry and system cost. We analyzed the heart rate variability (HRV) from the driver's electrocardiogram (ECG) and displayed the heart rate and Root Mean Square of Successive Differences (RMSSD) values together with the ECG waveform in real-time. A prototype of the DSM system with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology was implemented and tested. We verified that the proposed approach was robust to the driver's movements, showing the feasibility and validity of the DSM with BCC technology using a conductive thread electrode.
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