Design and implementation of a wireless ECG acquisition and communication system with health-care services

Author

Hsiao, Hui-Yang ; Wang, Liang-Hung ; Liu, Feng-Ching ; Chen, Chien-Chou ; Lee, Shuenn-Yuh ; Chen, Huan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Ming-Hsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

28

Abstract

In this paper, we present a system that can provide a better caring service to the remote patients. The system we developed mainly focuses on the cardiac signal acquisition (i.e., ECG) and its communication. A prototype using the ZigBee wireless technology was built to verify the designed functions and required system performance. Results show the hardware and firmware on the end-user device can work together very well to perform reliable ECG signal acquisition as well as communication task via the ZigBee wireless technology. In addition, a PC-based GUI interface is also developed to provide ECG signal processing task and health care video tracking and management functions.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical communication; data acquisition; electrocardiography; firmware; graphical user interfaces; health care; medical signal processing; ECG signal processing; PC-based GUI interface; ZigBee wireless technology; cardiac signal acquisition; communication system; end-user device; firmware; hardware; health care services; health care video tracking; management functions; wireless ECG acquisition system; Electrocardiography; Medical services; Microprogramming; Monitoring; Receivers; Transmitters; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics (ISBB), 2011 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Suzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0076-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBB.2011.6107636

Filename

6107636