Development and Evaluation of a Bluetooth EKG Monitoring Sensor

Author

Proulx, Joshua ; Clifford, Ryan ; Sorensen, Sarah ; Lee, Dah-Jye ; Archibald, James

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECEn, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

507

Lastpage

511

Abstract

With the adoption of 2G and 3G cellular network technologies, mobile phones now have the bandwidth capability to stream data back to monitoring stations in real-time. Our paper describes the design and evaluation of a Bluetooth electrocardiogram sensor that transmits medical data to a cell phone. This data is displayed and stored on the phone. Future development of the system will relay this data over a cellular GPRS network. The current system provides a low cost and lightweight alternative to existing EKG event monitors. The final GPRS connected system will provide continuous monitoring of a patient ´s heart anywhere cellular coverage is available

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical communication; electrocardiography; mobile radio; packet radio networks; Bluetooth electrocardiogram sensor; cellular GPRS network; cellular network technologies; mobile phones; Back; Bandwidth; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Cellular phones; Ground penetrating radar; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Mobile handsets; Relays; Sensor phenomena and characterization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2006. CBMS 2006. 19th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2517-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2006.74

Filename

1647621