A Novel System-On-Chip Design of Wearable ECG Signs Monitoring Node Into Medical Vest

Intelligent fabric are fabrics with interconnections and electronics woven into them. The electronics consist of both processing and sensing elements, distributed throughout the fabric. In this paper we present a medical vest which has the wireless sensor network node for ECG signs monitoring. The system-on-chip solution chosen to transmit the body´s measured signals for further processing was the use of a wireless link, working at the 2.45 GHz ISM band. Some implementation details are explained showing how the solution can be effectively implemented and deployed into medical vest. The simultaneous recording of ECG signs is essential for the identification of disorders of the cardiac rhythm, extremely useful for the diagnosis and management of heart abnormalities such as myocardial infarction (heart attack), and offers helpful clues to the presence of generalised disorders that affect the rest of the body, such as electrolyte disturbances and drug intoxication.