Two portable long-term measurement devices for ECG and bioimpedance

Timo Vuorela; Jukka Vanhala; Ville-Pekka Seppä; Jari Hyttinen

2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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Two portable long-term measurement devices for ECG and bioimpedance

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    author={Timo Vuorela and Jukka Vanhala and Ville-Pekka Sepp\aa{} and Jari Hyttinen},
    title={Two portable long-term measurement devices for ECG and bioimpedance},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2008},
    month={7},
    keywords={ECG bioimpedance portable measurement device},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2512}
}

Timo Vuorela
Jukka Vanhala
Ville-Pekka Seppä
Jari Hyttinen
Year: 2008
Two portable long-term measurement devices for ECG and bioimpedance
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2512

Timo Vuorela¹^,*, Jukka Vanhala¹, Ville-Pekka Seppä²^,*, Jari Hyttinen²

1: Institute of Electronics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.
2: Ragnar Granit Institute, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.

*Contact email: timo.vuorela@tut.fi, ville-pekka.seppa@tut.fi

Abstract

This paper presents an implementation of two portable measurement device prototypes. Both prototypes are targeted for measuring ECG and bioimpedance signals. The first prototype is a wireless type, which sends data in real-time to a PC. The second prototype is a logging device, which stores data to a memory card. After a measurement session data from memory card is transferred to a PC through USB cable. One drawback in the first prototype is a poor usability caused by the limited range of the wireless data link and another drawback is a crosstalk between measured signals. The drawbacks of the first prototype were improved in the second prototype.

Keywords: ECG bioimpedance portable measurement device

Published: 2008-07-22
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2512