A novel wearable ECG monitoring system based on active-cable and intelligent electrodes

Author

Yang, Geng ; Chen, Jian ; Cao, Ying ; Tenhunen, Hannu ; Zheng, Li-Rong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., R. Inst. of Technol., Kista

fYear

2008

fDate

7-9 July 2008

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

159

Abstract

In this paper, a novel wearable electrocardiograph (ECG) monitoring system is presented. Unlike most of the existing holter monitors that are composed of conventional electrodes and multiple cables, the ECG monitoring system proposed here consists of intelligent electrodes and one single Active-Cable. A prototype of a wearable ECG monitoring system is developed and implemented on Xilinx FPGAs. The experimental results show that a reliable performance with high-quality ECG data can be achieved using this novel ECG monitoring system.

Keywords

biomedical electrodes; electrocardiography; patient monitoring; Active-Cable; Xilinx FPGAs; intelligent electrodes; wearable ECG monitoring system; Biomedical monitoring; Cardiac disease; Communication cables; Costs; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Interference; Joining processes; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Active-Cable; ECG monitoring; intelligent electrode; wearable device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-health Networking, Applications and Services, 2008. HealthCom 2008. 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2280-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2281-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600127

Filename

4600127