A Zigbee Based Mesh Network for ECG Monitoring System

Author

Cai Ken ; Liang Xiaoying

Author_Institution

Inf. Coll., Zhongkai Univ. of Agric. & Eng., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we present a portable intelligent electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system using the Zigbee wireless network technology. The system consist of both hardware and software development. For the hardware development, a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), ECG sensor, preprocessing circuit, Zigbee transmission module, and external memory are used. And the FPGA with a Nios II soft-core CPU is the heart of the system, which is used to control all other units. As for the software development, a real-time system called μC/OS-II is used and some related application programs is designed. The objective of this system is to continuously monitor cardiac patients.

Keywords

electrocardiography; field programmable gate arrays; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; program processors; real-time systems; wireless mesh networks; μC/OS-II; ECG monitoring system; FPGA; Nios II soft-core CPU; Zigbee transmission module; Zigbee wireless network technology; cardiac patient monitoring; electrocardiogram; external memory; field programmable gate arrays; mesh network; preprocessing circuit; Electrocardiography; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Intelligent sensors; Mesh networks; Monitoring; Programming; Sensor arrays; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5514693

Filename

5514693