Rapid Prototyping of a Low-Power, Wireless, Reflectance Photoplethysmography System

Author

Wong, Kiing-Ing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Miri, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

7-9 June 2010

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

51

Abstract

In this investigation we have prototype a low-power, wireless, reflectance photoplethysmography (PPG) system. The PPG system consisted of a PPG sensor and a workstation. An amplifier circuit is stacked on the bottom of a commercial wireless sensor node to achieve the PPG sensor of wearable size. The PPG sensor detects the local bio-signals and radios the signals to the workstation for display and storage. This work demonstrates the feasibility of using WSN-based technology for fast prototyping of a body sensor system.

Keywords

amplifiers; bio-optics; body sensor networks; plethysmography; PPG sensor; WSN based technology; amplifier circuit; local biosignal detection; low power wireless reflectance PPG system; photoplethysmography system; rapid prototyping; wireless sensor node; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Blood; Heart; Optical amplifiers; Prototypes; Reflectivity; Sensor systems; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Body Sensors; PPG; WSN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5817-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSN.2010.53

Filename

5504809