A non-invasive remote health monitoring system using visible light communication

Author

Al-Qahtani, Abdulla ; Al-Hajri, Hamad ; Al-kuwari, Saad ; Al-yaarabi, Naseer ; Al-hababi, Abdulrahman ; Al-kubaisi, Essa ; Ahmed, Abdulla ; Kashef, Mohamad ; Abbasi, Qammer H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Texas A & M Univ. at Qatar, Doha, Qatar

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper a non-invasive Electroencephalograph (ECG) monitoring system based on visible light communication is presented. An ECG kit is connected to ardueno board which uses wifi shield to transmit the ECG signal wirelessly to computer. A prototype of visible light communication (VLC) link is used to transmit the ECG signal. The received ECG signal over VLC link is compared with the transmitted ECG signal and error is calculated. Result shows that maximum 3% error in received signal at a distance of 2 meter, which opens a new path of using VLC channel in remote health monitoring system.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; electrocardiography; error analysis; optical communication; patient monitoring; pattern matching; prototypes; telemedicine; wireless LAN; ECG kit; ECG signal wireless transmission; VLC channel; VLC link prototype; Wi-Fi shield; ardueno board; distance 2 m; error calculation; noninvasive ECG monitoring system; noninvasive electroencephalograph monitoring system; received ECG signal comparison; transmitted ECG signal comparison; visible light communication; Biomedical monitoring; Boards; Electrocardiography; Medical services; Monitoring; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; ECG; on-body; remote healthcare; visible lightcommunication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Information and Communication Technologies for Ubiquitous HealthCare (Ubi-HealthTech), 2015 2nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6167-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Ubi-HealthTech.2015.7203332

Filename

7203332