Breathefree

Stress and anxiety are two of the most common problems faced by many people which can affect a person’s breathing pattern and bad breathing causes more serious problems. Our product aims to detect early stress and anxiety using breathing as a vital sign.

After a lot of research, we found out that the best non-invasive way to measure a person’s breathing rate is by measuring their chest and belly expansion. To make our prototype compact and easy to wear we made two rectangular 3D Printed box like structures and fitted them with FSR sensors to measure the chest and belly expansion.

It is a wireless device that connects with the computer via bluetooth dongle and sends the data serially. We are using a python program which collects the data and generates. A4 size infographic report of the breathing that includes chest and belly breathing pattern, consistency and flow of breathing, breathing rate, number of deep, shallow and normal breaths.