Miniature Wireless Measurement Node for ECG Signal Transmission in Home Area Network

Author

Vehkaoja, Antti T. ; Verho, Jarmo A. ; Lekkala, Jukka O.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Meas. & Inf. Technol., Tampere Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

2049

Lastpage

2052

Abstract

A miniature wireless node for ECG measurements is presented. The ECG node is designed to be used in various applications including measurement of heart rate during physical exercise and continuous long term measurement of ECG for people assumed having, or being recovering from a cardiac disease. The ECG node is wirelessly connected to a computer using IEEE 802.15.4 based radio protocol. The device sends the measured ECG signal together with additional measurement parameters including battery voltage to the computer, where the ECG signal can be analyzed on-line. The ECG node can operate alone or it can be used as a part of an overall system being designed for monitoring people that are transferred from hospital to home treatment

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; diseases; electrocardiography; medical computing; personal area networks; radiotelemetry; ECG signal transmission; IEEE 802.15.4 based radio protocol; cardiac disease; continuous long term ECG measurement; heart rate measurement; home area network; miniature wireless ECG measurement node; physical exercise; Application software; Area measurement; Battery charge measurement; Cardiac disease; Computerized monitoring; Electrocardiography; Heart rate; Signal analysis; Voltage; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260415

Filename

4462188