A reconfigurable wireless health monitoring system with Undecimated Wavelet Transform implemented

Author

Jiabai Xie ; Xianxiang Chen ; Bing Zhou ; Xinyu Hu ; Xiao Tan ; Ren Ren ; Yangmin Qian ; Huaiyong Li ; Lili Tian ; Shanhong Xia

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Transducer Technol., Inst. of Electron., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

8-9 May 2014

Firstpage

848

Lastpage

851

Abstract

This paper presents a novel wireless health monitoring system based on an embedded reconfigurable platform with CPU and FPGA integrated on a single board. Physiological signals and parameters are acquired by BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) sensor nodes and transferred to the platform via a BLE dongle connected through RS-232 interface. A UWT (Undecimated Wavelet Transform) core is implemented in the built-in FPGA chip to accelerate signal analysis. The test result shows that this FPGA core runs much faster than the CPU-based UWT function implemented in LabVIEW Real-Time module.

Keywords

Bluetooth; body sensor networks; field programmable gate arrays; medical computing; patient monitoring; wavelet transforms; BLE dongle; BLE sensor nodes; Bluetooth low energy sensor nodes; CPU; FPGA; RS-232 interface; UWT; embedded reconfigurable platform; physiological signal; reconfigurable wireless health monitoring system; undecimated wavelet transform; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Hardware design languages; Monitoring; Transforms; Wireless communication; Zigbee; bluetooth low energy; health monitoring; reconfigurable; undecimated wavelet transform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Computer and Applications, 2014 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWECA.2014.6845754

Filename

6845754