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. 2020 Sep 22;20(18):5446. doi: 10.3390/s20185446

Table 2.

Analysis of sensing techniques, sensors, breathing parameters, and sensor location and size for studies of the environmental category.

Study 1 Technique Sensor Measured Parameter Location Size
Al-Wahedi 2019 [163] Modulation cardiac activity Radar RR Distance from subject (20–75 cm away)
Chen 2019 [164] Modulation cardiac activity Radar RR Mat (below bed)
Gunaratne 2019 [165] Chest wall movements Piezoelectric RR Mat 7 × 7 cm (each sensor)
Guo 2019 [166] Chest wall movements Capacitive RR Mat
Isono 2019 [167] Chest wall movements Piezoelectric RR Others (under bed legs)
Ivanovs 2019 [168] Chest wall movements
Modulation cardiac activity
Camera
Radar
Respiration detection -
Joshi 2019 [169] Chest wall movements Capacitive RR Mat (below baby mattress) 580 × 300 × 0.4 mm
Krej 2019 [170] Chest wall movements Fiber optic RR Mat
Lorato 2019 [171] Air temperature Camera RR Distance from subject (side and front, 10–50 cm away)
Massaroni 2019 [172] Chest wall movements Camera RR Distance from subject (1.2 m away)
Park 2019 [173] Chest wall movements Piezoelectric RR User’s mat (Chest region) 40 × 750 × 0.25 mm
Walterscheid 2019 [174] Modulation cardiac activity Radar RR Distance from subject (3.3–4.2 m away)
Wang 2019 [175] Modulation cardiac activity Radar RR Distance from subject (50 cm away)
Xu 2019 [176] Respiratory sounds Microphone RR Others (instrument panel of vehicle)
Yang 2019 [177] Modulation cardiac activity Radar RR Distance from subject (1.5 m height, 0–3 m away)
Chen 2018 [178] Modulation cardiac activity Wi-Fi transmitter and receiver RR
Respiration detection
Nodes -
Chen 2018 [179] Chest wall movements Piezoelectric RR Mat 2 × 35 cm
Massaroni 2018 [180] Chest wall movements Camera RR
Respiratory pattern
Distance from subject (1.2 m away) -
Massaroni 2018 [181] Chest wall movements Fiber optic RR Others (inside ventilator duct) 3 cm
Sadek 2018 [182] Chest wall movements Fiber optic RR
Respiratory pattern
Mat 20 × 50 cm

1 Note: The analysis for studies published before 2018 [5,6,7,9,10,19,48,50,51,52,53,54,183,184,185,186,187,188,189,190,191,192,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,202,203,204,205,206,207,208,209,210,211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233,234] is included in Appendix A (Table A2).