The Challenge:

Need to measure how well chronically ill patients are sleeping through the night?

• How restless are they?
• Did they wake up and get out of bed at night?
• How many times did they toss and turn?
• Get 12 hours of data into excel for plotting/charts and analysis.

Diagram:

Results:

Solution:

Use four load cells to place on legs of hospital bed in order to monitor (movement) of patient.

Parts Used:
• 4 iLoad Pro USB 100 lb digital load cells
• WX-800 Wireless USB hub
• LoadVUE software

Total time to setup
• 30 minutes