Title :
Open platform, eight-channel, portable bio-potential and activity data logger for wearable medical device development
Author :
Cook, A.J. ; Gargiulo, G.D. ; Lehmann, T. ; Hamilton, T.J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Telecommun., UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
The design of a wearable, portable and reconfigurable physical activity and an eight-channel bio-potential data logger, capable of increasing compliance by enabling customised feedback (i.e. calories expenditure and amount of physical activity) is presented while recording clinically meaningful information regarding a subject´s health. Here an application of the device to the cardio-vascular system comprising simultaneous recording of ECG and activity in both resting and under-stress conditions is presented (clinical trials are performed under the supervision of expert cardiologists at Prince of Wales Hospital NSW, Australia). The designed device (based around the low-power LPC1768 ARM processor and the bio-potential front-end ADS1298) is an open-source one and is provided under the GPL GNU 3.0 collaborative licence.
Keywords :
bioelectric potentials; body sensor networks; cardiovascular system; data loggers; electrocardiography; ECG recording; calories expenditure; cardiovascular system; eight-channel portable biopotential data logger; low-power LPC1768 ARM processor; physcial activity data logger; wearable medical device development;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2015.2764
