Heart rate monitoring system based on power line communication

Author

Sridhathan, C. ; Haidar, Ahmed M A

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

20-21 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

62

Abstract

Nowadays, Power Line Communication (PLC) using pre-established Power Lines (PL) becomes more attractive for high data transmission technology. With the development of this technology utilizing distribution line, the medical data such as human Heart Rate (HR) can be transmitted over the power line channel. This paper presents a case study of HR Monitoring System (HRMS) involving the use of PLC as a channel to transfer the patient HR measured by Pulse Oximetry (PO). The collected data from the hospital will be stored in the system. The transmission of data on PLC is achieved by using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). The performance of the above techniques is evaluated based on the Bit Error Rate (BER).

Keywords

OFDM modulation; biomedical communication; cardiology; carrier transmission on power lines; data communication; error statistics; oximetry; patient monitoring; HR monitoring system; OFDM; PLC; bit error rate; data transmission; heart rate monitoring system; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; patient HR; power line channel; power line communication; pulse oximetry; Bit error rate; Data models; Heart rate; OFDM; Power line communications; Signal to noise ratio; Heart Rate; Monitoring System; Power Line Communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT), 2011 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Semenyih

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0443-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089325

Filename

6089325