Title :
Modern approach in multiple patients ECG monitoring
Author :
Gabriel, Valky ; Fedor, Lehocki
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Slovak Univ. of Technol. in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract :
This paper presents a complex system for monitoring of multiple patients at the same time by the means of acquiring the ECG waveforms from human heart. This system is composed of devices for acquisition of ECG waveforms utilizing Bluetooth technology for wireless data transfer, software applications for mobile devices with internet access, server application and client application employing innovative visualization techniques of gathered information optimized for tablet computers and application for management of patient´s records. The novelty of our approach is using tablet computers as visualization device instead of professional equipment that integrates both the display and the low voltage amplifier circuits. For this purpose we utilize the HTML5 and WebSockets technology. Our aim is designing a low cost ECG monitoring system including both the hardware and software part.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; Internet; biomedical communication; data visualisation; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; mobile computing; mobile handsets; Bluetooth technology; ECG waveform acquisition; HTML5; Internet access; WebSockets technology; client application; human heart; innovative visualization techniques; low voltage amplifier circuits; mobile devices; multiple patient ECG monitoring; patient records; professional equipment; server application; software applications; tablet computers; wireless data transfer; Hardware; Internet; Monitoring; Servers; Software; Visualization; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2012 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2176-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2175-5
DOI :
10.1109/BHI.2012.6211526