A low-power multi-modal body sensor network with application to epileptic seizure monitoring

Author

Altini, Marco ; Din, Silvia Del ; Patel, Shyamal ; Schachter, Steven ; Penders, Julien ; Bonato, Paolo

Author_Institution

Holst Centre, imec, Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

1806

Lastpage

1809

Abstract

Monitoring patients´ physiological signals during their daily activities in the home environment is one of the challenge of the health care. New ultra-low-power wireless technologies could help to achieve this goal. In this paper we present a low-power, multi-modal, wearable sensor platform for the simultaneous recording of activity and physiological data. First we provide a description of the wearable sensor platform, and its characteristics with respect to power consumption. Second we present the preliminary results of the comparison between our sensors and a reference system, on healthy subjects, to test the reliability of the detected physiological (electrocardiogram and respiration) and electromyography signals.

Keywords

body sensor networks; electrocardiography; electromyography; medical disorders; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; electrocardiogram signals; electromyography signals; epileptic seizure monitoring; health care; home environment; low-power multi-modal body sensor network; patient physiological signal monitoring; power consumption; respiration; ultra-low-power wireless technologies; wearable sensor platform; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Electromyography; Monitoring; Power demand; Wearable sensors; Actigraphy; Computer Communication Networks; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Electric Power Supplies; Electrocardiography; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Reproducibility of Results; Respiratory Rate; Seizures; Sensitivity and Specificity; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090515

Filename

6090515