A very low-power consumption wireless ECG monitoring system using body as a signal transmission medium

Author

Handa, Takashi ; Shoji, Shuichi ; Ike, Shinichi ; Takeda, Sunao ; Sekiguchi, Tetsushi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Inf. & Commun., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

16-19 Jun 1997

Firstpage

1003

Abstract

A very low-power consumption wireless system for monitoring ECG (electrocardiogram) is proposed. It consists of an ECG detector/transmitter located on the chest and the relay transmitter placed at the wrist. Between the detector part and the relay transmitter, the signal is send as the AC micro current flows through the tissue of the body. Since this method achieves very low-power signal transmission of about 8 μW (400 mV_RMS×20 μA_RMS), the system can be driven by a very small power source like a thin film battery. A similar wireless transmission method can be applied for other medical signal/data sensing micro systems sharing the same relay transmitter

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; biomedical telemetry; electrocardiography; patient monitoring; power supplies to apparatus; radio receivers; radio transmitters; 20 muA; 400 mV; 8 muW; AC micro current; ECG detector/transmitter; body; chest; data sensing micro systems; medical signal micro systems; relay transmitter; signal transmission medium; thin film battery; tissue; very low-power consumption wireless ECG monitoring system; very small power source; wrist; Batteries; Detectors; Electrocardiography; Monitoring; Power system relaying; Relays; Transistors; Transmitters; Wireless sensor networks; Wrist;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid State Sensors and Actuators, 1997. TRANSDUCERS '97 Chicago., 1997 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3829-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSOR.1997.635344

Filename

635344