Wearable Noncontact Armband for Mobile ECG Monitoring System

One of the best ways to obtain health information is from an electrocardiogram (ECG). Through an ECG, characteristics such as patients' heartbeats, heart conditions, and heart disease can be analyzed. Unfortunately, most available healthcare devices do not provide clinical data such as informat...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems 2016-12, Vol.10 (6), p.1112-1118
Main Authors: Rachim, Vega Pradana, Wan-Young Chung
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armband
Biomedical monitoring
Bluetooth
bluetooth low energy
capacitive-coupled
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cell Phone
Coronary artery disease
Data transmission
ECG monitoring
EKG
Electrocardiography
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory - instrumentation
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory - methods
Electrodes
Health care
Heart
Heart - diagnostic imaging
Heart diseases
Heart Rate - physiology
Humans
Mobile communication
Monitoring systems
wearable device
Wearable sensors
Wearable technology
Wireless Technology
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Summary:One of the best ways to obtain health information is from an electrocardiogram (ECG). Through an ECG, characteristics such as patients' heartbeats, heart conditions, and heart disease can be analyzed. Unfortunately, most available healthcare devices do not provide clinical data such as information regarding patients' heart activities. Many researchers have tried to solve this problem by inventing wearable heart monitoring systems with a chest strap or wristband, but their performances were not feasible for practical applications. Thus, the aim of this study is to build a new system to monitor heart activity through ECG signals. The proposed system consists of capacitive-coupled electrodes embedded in an armband. It is considered to be a reliable, robust, and low-power-transmission ECG monitoring system. The reliability of this system was achieved by the careful placement of sensors in the armband. Bluetooth low energy (BLE) was used as the protocol for data transmission; this protocol was proposed to develop the low-power-transmission system. For robustness, the proposed system is equipped with analysis capabilities-e.g., real-time heartbeat detection and a filter algorithm to ignore distractions from body movements or noise from the environment.
ISSN:1932-4545
1940-9990
DOI:10.1109/TBCAS.2016.2519523