Wearable sensors network for health monitoring using e-Health platform

In this paper, the authors have proposed to present a wearable system for automatic recording of the main physiological parameters of the human body: body temperature, galvanic skin response, respiration rate, blood pressure, pulse, blood oxygen content, blood glucose content, electrocardiogram (ECG...

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Published in:Carpathian journal of electronic and computer engineering 2014-01, Vol.7 (1), p.25
Main Authors: Orha, I, Oniga, S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Body temperature
Human body
Medical diagnosis
Patients
Physiology
Programming languages
Real time
Sensors
Skin
Software
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Summary:In this paper, the authors have proposed to present a wearable system for automatic recording of the main physiological parameters of the human body: body temperature, galvanic skin response, respiration rate, blood pressure, pulse, blood oxygen content, blood glucose content, electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyography (EMG), and patient position. To realize this system, the authors have developed a program that can read and automatically save in a file, the data from specialized sensors. The data received from the wearable sensors is taken by an interface circuit, provided with signal conditioning (filtering, amplification, etc). A microcontroller controls the data acquisition. In this applications they used an Arduino Uno standard development platform. The data are transferred to a PC, using serial communication port of Arduino platform and a communications shield. The whole process of health assessment is commissioned by a program developed by the authors in the Python programming language. The program provides automatic recording of the aforementioned parameters in a predetermined sequence, or only certain parameters are registered.
ISSN:1844-9689
2343-8908