Child-friendly wireless remote health monitoring system

Author

Wesseler, M.E. ; Saatchi, Reza ; Burke, D.

Author_Institution

Sheffield Hallam Univ., Sheffield, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 July 2014

Firstpage

198

Lastpage

202

Abstract

A wireless child-friendly health monitoring system that records photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals has been built. It uses low cost LEDs as optical receivers. It was shown that the recorded PPG signals are larger in magnitude by nearly five times when using four LEDs in a suitable formation as photo detectors. The PPG signals were transmitted wirelessly and stored on a PC. The signals were processed to extract heart beat rate, respiration rate and SpO₂ blood oxygen saturation level. The results that demonstrated the effectiveness of the device´s operation are presented.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; blood; cardiology; light emitting diodes; medical signal processing; photodetectors; photoplethysmography; LED; PPG signal recording; blood oxygen saturation level; child-friend wireless remote health monitoring system; device operation; heart beat rate; optical receivers; photodetectors; photoplethysmogram signal recording; respiration rate; Biomedical monitoring; Blood; Detectors; Heart beat; Light emitting diodes; Monitoring; Pediatrics; Remote health monitoring; photoplethysmogram; physiological signal measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2014 9th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2014.6923824

Filename

6923824