Faghih Imani Lab

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NIH R01 · 2025

SCH: Wireless sensing of biomarkers using intelligent surfaces for smart homes and sleep medicine

The ability to retrieve biomarkers like heart and respiratory rates without disrupting a user's typical sleep environment can revolutionize sleep medicine, smart healthcare, independent living, and sleep health monitoring of cancer patients. Sleep health is closely tied to cancer risk, cancer prognosis, and health-related quality of life of cancer survivors. This need has driven an ever-growing interest in wireless remote sensing of biomarkers using WiFi signals or radars to monitor cardio-respiratory signals and thereby assess sleep quality, timing and duration. However, these technologies typically use a small number of antennas, limiting their spatial resolution. As a result, their…

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