HealthGear: a real-time wearable system for monitoring and analyzing physiological signals

Author

Oliver, Nuria ; Flores-Mangas, Fernando

Author_Institution

Microsoft Res., Redmond, WA

fYear

2006

fDate

3-5 April 2006

Lastpage

64

Abstract

We present HealthGear, a real-time wearable system for monitoring, visualizing and analyzing physiological signals. HealthGear consists of a set of noninvasive physiological sensors wirelessly connected via Bluetooth to a cell phone which stores, transmits and analyzes the physiological data, and presents it to the user in an intelligible way. In this paper, we focus on an implementation of HealthGear using a blood oximeter to monitor the user´s blood oxygen level and pulse while sleeping. We also describe two different algorithms for automatically detecting sleep apnea events, and illustrate the performance of the overall system in a sleep study with 20 volunteers

Keywords

Bluetooth; blood; condition monitoring; electric sensing devices; medical signal processing; oximetry; patient monitoring; sleep; Bluetooth; HealthGear system; blood oximeter; blood oxygen level monitoring; noninvasive physiological sensors; physiological signals; pulse monitoring; real time wearable system; Biomedical monitoring; Blood; Bluetooth; Cellular phones; Data analysis; Data visualization; Event detection; Real time systems; Signal analysis; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2006. BSN 2006. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2547-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSN.2006.27

Filename

1612896