Did you know about MARCHESE ?

Innovative Contactless Health Monitoring Enhances Patient Care and Worker Safety

Derived from CERN’s Mechatronics, Robotics and Operations section, lies a project aiming to impact how we monitor the health of patients in a clinical setting. MARCHESE combines hardware systems with innovative algorithms to measure vital signals such as heart rate, respiration rate, and body motion without any physical contact. The MARCHESE project is now collaborating with CHU Lille Hospital, France, in testing the system, with the final goal of monitoring at-risk patients, including elderly people and newborns.

The technology behind MARCHESE’s simple yet ingenious design, employs a fusion of sensors including radar, laser distance sensors, and RGB cameras. The devices work in unison to monitor subtle changes in the human body. The system can monitor respiratory movements through lasers and blood flow through skin colour variations.
In collaboration with the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire of Lille, in France, the MARCHESE team has provided the system to make clinical tests on healthy subjects. If successful, the eventual goal is to use the MARCHESE system to safely monitor the elderly and newborns. This type of implementation would greatly increase the safety, hygiene and comfort of all types of patients during hospitalization in clinical settings.

As clearly seen, the future of this project looks promising to say the least!