A wearable vital signs monitoring system for pervasive healthcare

Author

Xu, Lin ; Guo, Dagang ; Tay, Francis Eng Hoch ; Xing, Shusong

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2010

fDate

20-21 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

89

Abstract

Remote monitoring of vital signs is an important technique to ensure the health and life quality of a patient. A wearable monitoring system for low-cost and pervasive healthcare is proposed in this paper. The system, which comprises of wireless module, miniaturized electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor and photoplethysmogram (PPG), is able to measure and analyze physiological signs in real-time and with minimum disturbance on daily life. With Bluetooth communications, a phone is able to exchange data with the sensors deployed on body and display the ECG/PPG waveforms as well as the significant physiological variables including heart beat rate, oxygen saturation (SpO₂) and systolic blood pressure. The wearability of the system provides great convenience and continuous healthcare service to the user.

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical measurement; body sensor networks; electrocardiography; health care; patient monitoring; photoplethysmography; Bluetooth communications; ECG waveforms; PPG waveforms; electrocardiogram; heart beat rate; low cost healthcare; miniaturized ECG sensor; miniaturized PPG; oxygen saturation; patient health; patient quality of life; pervasive healthcare; photoplethysmogram; remote vital sign monitoring; systolic blood pressure; wearable vital sign monitoring system; wireless module; Electrocardiography; Variable speed drives;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT), 2010 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Petaling Jaya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7504-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STUDENT.2010.5687003

Filename

5687003