VMote: A Wearable Wireless Health Monitoring System

Author

Hughes, E. ; Masilela, M. ; Eddings, P. ; Raflq, A. ; Boanca, C. ; Merrell, R.

Author_Institution

Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA

fYear

2007

fDate

19-22 June 2007

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

331

Abstract

A low-power, wireless, wearable physiological monitoring system has been developed and implemented using commercial off-the-shelf components. The non-invasive system supports physiological monitoring of skin temperature, oxygen saturation (SpO2), heart rate (HR), blood volumetric pressure (BVP) and galvanic skin resistance (GSR). The sensors are integrated into a wearable device that can be used to monitor the health and wellness of various patient populations. Data collected by the sensors are sent wirelessly to a personal computer.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; biothermics; cardiology; haemodynamics; mobile computing; patient monitoring; skin; software packages; wireless sensor networks; blood volumetric pressure; commercial off-the-shelf component; galvanic skin resistance; heart rate; low-power wireless wearable physiological monitoring system; oxygen saturation; patient monitoring; skin temperature; wearable wireless health monitoring system; wireless sensor network; Biomedical monitoring; Blood; Heart rate; Heart rate measurement; Patient monitoring; Skin; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Application and Services, 2007 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0942-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381665

Filename

4265859