A light-weighted, Low-cost and Wireless ECG Monitor Design based on TinyOS Operating System

Author

Kiing-Ing, Wong

Author_Institution

Curtin Univ. of Technol., Miri

fYear

2007

fDate

8-11 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

168

Abstract

Due to the recent active research activities in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSN), the development and realization of a light-weighted, low-cost and wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor has become feasible. In this paper, we propose an ECG monitor design based on a commercially available WSN device. The device utilizes 868 MHz ISM license free frequency band and operates on TinyOS operating system. The ECG signal from patients is detected and radioed to a PC for monitoring. This paper validates our approach and suggests the feasibility of future enhancements.

Keywords

electrocardiography; medical computing; operating systems (computers); patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; TinyOS operating system; wireless ECG monitor design; wireless electrocardiogram monitor; wireless sensor networks; Biomedical monitoring; Computerized monitoring; Electrocardiography; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Operating systems; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; Wireless sensor networks; ECG; TinyOS; WSN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2007. ITAB 2007. 6th International Special Topic Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1867-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1868-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407370

Filename

4407370