Evaluation of Personally Worn and Ceiling-based Sensors in Circadian Rhythm Monitoring

Charikleia Papatsimpa

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Abstract

In the recent years, we saw a rapidly increasing interest in monitoring the human circadian rhythm. Yet, accurate measurement of an individual's retinal light exposure appears to be the Achilles heel of many applications based on circadian physiology. In fact, available body-worn and infrastructure-based devices typically exhibit very large inaccuracies and discrepancies, depending for instance on the sensor position. In this paper, we study the feasibility of available sensors for circadian rhythm monitoring and whether the reported light exposure inaccuracies are reflected in the estimations of the actual circadian state. We applied the dynamic circadian oscillator model by Kronauer to compare the phase shift resulting from body-worn and ceiling-based light measurements to reference retinal light exposure measurements. Our results stress out that despite their low accuracy, the efficacy of body worn and infrastructure-based solutions is adequate for circadian rhythm monitoring as no significant phase-shift errors were observed. In fact, the maximum daily phase shift error was-12 ± 3 min.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Sensors, SENSORS 2020 - Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-6801-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Oct 2020
Event19th IEEE Sensors Conference, SENSORS 2020 - Virtual Conference, Virtual, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 25 Oct 202028 Oct 2020
https://2020.ieee-sensorsconference.org/

Conference

Conference19th IEEE Sensors Conference, SENSORS 2020
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityVirtual, Rotterdam
Period25/10/2028/10/20
Internet address

Keywords

  • circadian
  • light
  • light sensor
  • retinal illuminance

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