A Non-Invasive Wireless Respiratory Monitoring System for Animals' Behavioural Studies

Abstract

This paper presents a novel non-invasive wireless device for animal breathing measurement. A flexible sensor is used to convert the berthing rate into a parodic resistive change. An interface circuit is designed to accurately measure the resistive signal, detect the breathing rate and transfer the recorded data to the computer wirelessly. Herein we demonstrate and discuss the functionality of the proposed system on a dog. Based on this result, the proposed system can reliably be used for animal behavioural studies.