Wearable System for EKG Monitoring - Evaluation of Night-Time Performance

Antti Vehkaoja; Jarmo Verho; Alper Cömert; Markku Honkala; Jukka Lekkala

Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, MobiHealth 2011, Kos Island, Greece, October 5-7, 2011. Revised Selected Papers

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Wearable System for EKG Monitoring - Evaluation of Night-Time Performance

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    author={Antti Vehkaoja and Jarmo Verho and Alper C\o{}mert and Markku Honkala and Jukka Lekkala},
    title={Wearable System for EKG Monitoring - Evaluation of Night-Time Performance},
    proceedings={Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, MobiHealth 2011, Kos Island, Greece, October 5-7, 2011. Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={Wearable EKG wireless network textile electrode night-time heart rate},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_17}
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Antti Vehkaoja
Jarmo Verho
Alper Cömert
Markku Honkala
Jukka Lekkala
Year: 2012
Wearable System for EKG Monitoring - Evaluation of Night-Time Performance
MOBIHEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_17

Antti Vehkaoja¹^,*, Jarmo Verho¹^,*, Alper Cömert¹^,*, Markku Honkala¹^,*, Jukka Lekkala¹^,*

1: Tampere University of Technology

*Contact email: antti.vehkaoja@tut.fi, jarmo.verho@tut.fi, alper.comert@tut.fi, markku.honkala@tut.fi, jukka.lekkala@tut.fi

Abstract

We evaluated the night-time heart rate recognition performance of our wireless EKG measurement system with four persons during fourteen nights. The system uses fabric electrodes, which rely on moisture of the skin as the electrolyte for optimal operation. Even with the small amount of sweating during night, we achieved an average of 99.8 % R-peak recognition rate when data transmission failures of the wireless network were not considered. Based on our test the performance of the textile electrodes is on par with commercial disposable gel EKG electrodes that were used as a comparison.

Keywords: Wearable EKG wireless network textile electrode night-time heart rate

Published: 2012-10-08

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_17