Title :
Solutions of hardware platform for Biotelemetric Systems
Author :
Janckulik, Dalibor ; Motalova, Leona ; Krejcar, Ondrej
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Meas. & Control, Tech. Univ. of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Abstract :
This paper describes one part of our Biotelemetric System. This part is hardware platform from preprocessing of ECG signal. In order to real time visualization of ECG data, we need measure and process real data from ECG device. This paper discusses main possibilities to solve this problem. First possibility is using of commercial devices, such as embedded PCs, PDAs and wireless ECG unit BlueECG communicating via bluetooth. Suggests major problems and disadvantages of their use and offers possible solutions. This possibility is construction of our own purpose-built equipment. Advantages of our own equipment are its low power consumption and collaboration with mobile devices with limited computing capabilities. In the end we describe the real-time response time of packet parsing problem.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; electrocardiography; medical computing; mobile computing; telemetry; BlueECG; Bluetooth; ECG signal; PDA; biotelemetric systems; embedded PC; hardware platform; packet parsing problem; wireless ECG unit; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Data visualization; Electrocardiography; Mobile communication; Operating systems; Personal digital assistants; biotelemetry; measurement; mobile; tablet PC;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electronics (AE), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pilsen
Print_ISBN :
978-80-7043-865-7