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1 Introduction
Federal communications commission (FCC) legalized
the use of UWB technology in February 2002 and it
released the spectral masks for emission level and
operating frequency used in radar, imaging and data
communication which resulted in a huge interest of
researchers community in use of UWB technology [11].
UWB technology transmits and receives information
over a larger range of bandwidth (greater than 500 MHz)
and it shares the bandwidth with other users. UWB
technology uses highly intense pulses. Due to which it
can be used for remote wireless monitoring and
measuring of motion of patient [1]. Impulse Radio (IR)
UWB is a type of UWB signaling that makes use of the
streams of baseband pulses with extremely short
duration, typically of nanosecond order, hence spreading
the radio signals power spectral density form almost
zero to a few gigahertz. The properties of UWB radar
such as lower power consumption, less amount of
interference and multipath effect and co-existence with
other devices makes it a better choice to be used in
medical applications [2-5].
2 Related work
A lot of research has been done for continuous time
non-invasive monitoring of vital signs of a patient
through UWB radar systems [1-2] [8-9]. Researchers in
Ref. [1] have presented method for measuring the
breathing and heart rate of a standstill body in front of
radar. In Ref. [2] the mathematical modeling of the
received waveform is presented and magnitude of
different breathing harmonics and intermodulation
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6 Experimental results
The breathing rate is measured in case of stationary and
non-stationary subject. The person is sitting at a distance
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the breathing rate estimation without movement
detection is shown in Fig. 4. The person is sitting idle
in the period of sample 1-50. It moves in period 51-62
and then stops motion. From Fig. 4, it is clear that
without movement detection, it shows the false
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