A wireless and context-aware ECG monitor : An iMote2 based portable system

This paper presents a portable monitoring system for ECG data. The system consists of an iMote2 with its sensor board (a platform from Intel Research), a custom ECG board, and a Bluetooth module capable of transmitting information to a smart phone. The iMote2 has the task of contextualizing the ECG data by adding not only accelerometer data, but ambient information as well. The integration of a subjectpsilas activity from accelerometers and environmental data like temperature, humidity, and light intensity will give a better general picture of where the changes in ECG data come from. The system visualizes the information on a portable Windows Mobile handheld with the possibility of transmitting the information to a remote server for later use or re-use. The overall result is a system which provides a clean ECG signal for classification to be run on the iMote2, where further processing and visualization can be performed by add-on mobile devices.