Integrated System Based on Wireless Sensors Network for Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring

Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering

关键词: cardiac arrhythmia;    heart rate detector;    low power microcontrollers;    remote patient monitoring;    wireless sensors network;   

DOI  :  10.4316/AECE.2013.01016

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper describes the research carried out for designing and producing an integrated system for monitoringpatients suffering from cardiac arrhythmias. Our system is based on a wireless sensors network (WSN) and canbe used in hospital or at home. It is able to measure and transmit the patient's heart rate (HR) by radio toa central telemonitoring station. The HR is continuously computed from the electrocardiographic signals usingcustom developed devices. These devices are attached to the patient and are based on low power microcontrollersand wireless transceivers. The data is uploaded through WSN on the central telemonitoring station. The softwarerunning on the telemonitoring station receives the HRs from monitored patients through WSN, displays them astemporal waveforms and activates the alerts when HR arrhythmia is detected. An experimental system for cardiacarrhythmia has been designed, implemented and tested.

【 授权许可】

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