A smart poultice with reconfigurable sensor array for wearable cardiac healthcare

Author

Yan, Long ; Yoo, Hoi-Jun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

22-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A smart poultice with reconfigurable sensor array is implemented by using planar fashionable circuit board (P-FCB) technology for wearable cardiac healthcare. It contains 1) 25-electrode array either for vital signal sensing or for external data communication, 2) a thin flexible battery, 3) a fabric inductor, and 4) a fabric circuit board on which a low power silicon chip is directly integrated. Start/stop operation of the smart poultice is realized by inductive-coupled remote controller with 8b ID verification function and external low power data transaction is achieved by using duty cycled body channel communication.

Keywords

biomedical electrodes; diseases; electrocardiography; haemodynamics; health care; intelligent sensors; patient monitoring; sensor arrays; duty cycled body channel communication; electrode array; external data communication; inductive-coupled remote controller; planar fashionable circuit board; recoπfigurable sensor array; smart poultice sensor; start/stop operation; vital signal sensing; wearable cardiac healthcare; Batteries; Data communication; Fabrics; Flexible printed circuits; Inductors; Integrated circuit technology; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Sensor arrays; Wearable sensors; Wearable cardiac healthcare; planar fashionable circuit board (P-FCB); reconfigurable sensing; remotely controlled system start-up; thoracic impedance variance (TIV);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2010 4th International Conference on-NO PERMISSIONS

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-89-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-963-9799-89-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8871

Filename

5482271