A PDA-based portable wireless ECG monitor for medical personal area networks

Author

Cano-García, J.M. ; González-Parada, E. ; Alarcón-Collantes, V. ; Casilari-Pérez, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Tecnologia Electron., Malaga Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

16-19 May 2006

Firstpage

713

Lastpage

716

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a remote monitoring system for ECG signals. In order to achieve this goal in an economic way, we suggest the implementation of portable monitors based on consumer products such as PDA and digital acquisition cards. Several patient health monitoring scenarios where this platform may be applied are outlined, and a versatile system architecture design to fit them all is proposed. The system provides remote monitoring of one or several patients wearing a portable device equipped with wireless connectivity based on different technologies such as Bluetooth, WIFI or UMTS

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Bluetooth; biomedical communication; electrocardiography; notebook computers; patient monitoring; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; ECG signals; PDA; UMTS; WIFI; digital acquisition cards; medical personal area networks; portable wireless ECG monitor; remote monitoring system; wireless connectivity; Application software; Biomedical monitoring; Data acquisition; Electrocardiography; Handheld computers; Hardware; Personal area networks; Personal digital assistants; Prototypes; Remote monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2006. MELECON 2006. IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Malaga

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653199

Filename

1653199