Intelligent wireless EMG/ECG electrode employing ZigBee technology

Author

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Osaka Inst. of Technol., Osaka, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

13-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

2856

Lastpage

2861

Abstract

This paper deals with a new wireless bio-signal acquisition system for various usage including universal man-machine interfaces. The system mainly consists of two components, that is, “the Intelligent Electrode” and data acquisition host. The former is the key component of this system. It is not only a bio-signal electrode, but also an RF transceiver employing ZigBee technology. It can sample data at 1 kHz as well as transmit them in real time. In addition, the intelligent electrode can vary its own analog constants such as gain or cut-off frequency of filter on line by commands over the air. The basic performance tests are also shown in this paper.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical electrodes; electrocardiography; electromyography; man-machine systems; medical signal processing; radio transceivers; ECG; EMG; RF transceiver; ZigBee; bio-signal electrode; data acquisition host; intelligent electrode; universal man-machine interfaces; wireless bio-signal acquisition system; Batteries; Data acquisition; Electrodes; Electromyography; Gain; Wireless communication; Zigbee; ECG; EMG; PSoC; ZigBee; bio-signal; intelligent electrode;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2011 Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0714-8

Type

conf

Filename

6060469