Title :
Mobile personal electrocardiogram monitoring system and transmission using MMS
Author :
Tahat, Ashraf A.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng., Princess Sumaya Univ. for Technol., Amman
Abstract :
A mobile monitoring system utilizing Bluetooth and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) with low-cost hardware equipment has been developed and implemented to enable transmission of an Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and body temperature of a patient. Communication between a smart mobile phone and the ECG and temperature acquisition apparatus is implemented using the popular Personal Area Network protocol Bluetooth. The mobile phone, in-turn, plots the received ECG signal and displays the temperature using a special application software running on the mobile phone itself, where the plot can be captured and saved as a bitmap image for transmission as an MMS message. The experimental setup can be operated for monitoring from anywhere in the globe covered by a cellular network that offers multimedia data services.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; electrocardiography; electronic messaging; medical signal processing; mobile computing; multimedia systems; protocols; Bluetooth; ECG signal; MMS; bitmap image; cellular network; electrocardiogram signal; low-cost hardware equipment; mobile monitoring system; mobile personal electrocardiogram monitoring system; multimedia data services; multimedia messaging service; personal area network protocol; smart mobile phone; temperature acquisition apparatus; Bluetooth; Electrocardiography; Hardware; Message service; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multimedia systems; Patient monitoring; Personal area networks; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Devices, Circuits and Systems, 2008. ICCDCS 2008. 7th International Caribbean Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1956-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1957-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCDCS.2008.4542630
