Implementation of Smart Headband for the Wearable Healthcare

Author

Kim, Sanghyun ; Ryoo, Dongwan ; Bae, Changseok

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Software & Eng., Korea Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul

fYear

2008

fDate

9-13 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The rapid technology advances enable healthcare system to monitor physiological signals in human´s daily life. The wearable healthcare system should be not only small and easy for users to wear them but accurate in measuring physiological signals in daily life without any inconvenience. To meet these requirements we propose a headband-style device to be easily wearable, smart headband. It measures a photo-plethysmography (PPG) signal at the forehead for monitoring the heart rate and acceleration signals for counting the number of steps. For the precise measurement, we adopt adaptive noise cancellation (ANC). Smart headband can provide the healthcare service to monitor the health state and to alert emergency situation.

Keywords

health care; intelligent sensors; medical computing; patient monitoring; plethysmography; wearable computers; acceleration signals monitoring; adaptive noise cancellation; heart rate monitoring; photoplethysmography signal; smart headband; wearable healthcare system; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Biomedical measurements; Biomedical monitoring; Distortion measurement; Fingers; Forehead; Heart rate; Medical services; Optical scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2008. ICCE 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1458-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1459-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2008.4587995

Filename

4587995