Title :
Sleeping ECG and body position monitoring system
Author :
Yang, Chang-Ming ; Chou, Chun-Mei ; Chen, Sau-Gee ; Li, Bing-Jing ; Hung, Shu-Hui ; Yang, Chang-Hwa ; Wu, Chih-Chung ; Hsieh, Mi-Chi ; Yang, Tsu-Lin
Author_Institution :
Ming Young Biomed. Corp., Miaoli, Taiwan
Abstract :
A textile-based ECG system for sleeper is presented. The electrode in the system is supported by a foam pad to ensure good contact as well as comfort to the wearer, and a flexible rubber to ensure that the electrode will electrically connect to the wearer only when pressed. Eight electrodes are multiplexed such that exactly two electrodes are pressed to connect the wearer no matter how the wearer lies. When the wearer lies in different positions, he/she will press different two electrodes, and then the morphology of the output ECG signal will be different accordingly. By this feature, the system can not only detect ECG but also determine the position of the sleeper.
Keywords :
biomedical electrodes; body area networks; electrocardiography; foams; medical signal detection; patient monitoring; ECG signal morphology; body position monitoring system; electrode multiplexing; flexible rubber; foam pad; sleeping ECG system; textile-based ECG system; Clothing; Electric Conductivity; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Equipment Design; Functional Laterality; Humans; Monitoring, Physiologic; Motor Activity; Posture; Signal Transduction; Sleep; Textiles;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332623
