{"id":2,"date":"2025-09-03T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:00:08","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many patients living with Stage III of COPD, especially those living in rural areas, those without regular transport, or those facing multi\u2011week waiting lists for pulmonology, resort to trial\u2011and\u2011error self\u2011medication to treat their disease; an older adult who guesses wrong can lose one or two critical days while bacteria seed mucus\u2011filled airways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional vital\u2011sign checks offer information too late after inflammation, and wearable devices on the market today remain inadequate for clinical decision-making. Commercial systems such as the <em>Clario Cough Tracker<\/em> and the <em>Strados RESP<\/em> <em>patch<\/em> record daily cough counts, yet reveal nothing about airway origin, posture, or temperature drift. Our senior project, the COPD Cough Communicator, by contrast, is a single\u2011use, seventy\u2011two\u2011hour adhesive patch that employs three catalogue\u2011grade sensor types: a miniature MEMS microphone, a three\u2011axis inertial\u2011motion unit, and a precision thermistor. These will help categorize a cough into \u201cupper\u2011dry,\u201d \u201clower\u2011productive,\u201d or \u201cmixed.\u201d When productive\u2011cough frequency rises with temperature, the algorithm flags a likely infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Many patients living with Stage III of COPD, especially those living in rural areas, those without regular transport, or those facing multi\u2011week waiting lists for pulmonology, resort to trial\u2011and\u2011error self\u2011medication to treat their disease; an older adult who guesses wrong can lose one or two critical days while bacteria seed mucus\u2011filled airways. Traditional vital\u2011sign &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/coughcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}