Mobile ECG measurement and analysis system using mobile phone as the base station

Author

Kailanto, Harri ; Hyvarinen, Esko ; Hyttinen, Jari

Author_Institution

Ragnar Granit Inst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

14

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an ECG measurement, analysis and transmission system which uses a mobile phone as a base station. The system is based on a small-sized mobile ECG recording device which sends measurement data wirelessly to the mobile phone. In the mobile phone the received data is analyzed and if abnormalities are found part of the measurement data is sent to a server for the use of medical personnel. The prototype of the system was made with a portable ECG monitor and Nokia 6681 mobile phone. The results show that modern smart phones are indeed capable for this kind of tasks. Thus, with their good networking and data processing capabilities, they are a potential part of the future wireless health care systems.

Keywords

biomedical communication; electrocardiography; health care; mobile handsets; base station; medical personnel; mobile ECG measurement; mobile phone; wireless health care systems; Base stations; Biomedical monitoring; Data analysis; Data processing; Electrocardiography; Mobile handsets; Network servers; Personnel; Prototypes; Smart phones; Bluetooth; ECG; J2ME; mobile health care; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571014

Filename

4571014