Research Article
Wearable ECG System for Health and Sports Monitoring
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257236, author={Emil Valchinov and Athanasios Antoniou and Konstantinos Rotas and Nicolas Pallikarakis}, title={Wearable ECG System for Health and Sports Monitoring}, proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={ecg dry-contact electrode body sensor}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257236} }- Emil Valchinov
Athanasios Antoniou
Konstantinos Rotas
Nicolas Pallikarakis
Year: 2014
Wearable ECG System for Health and Sports Monitoring
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257236
Abstract
A wireless ECG system using dry-contact electrodes is presented. The system consists of a pair of coin sized dry-contact electrodes manufactured on a standard printed circuit board that can operate both on top of the skin and through clothing and can be embedded within comfortable layers of fabric. The wireless main unit assures the transmission of the ECG signals to a computer for storage and processing. The system provides a differential gain of 56dB over a 1-150Hz bandwidth. Signals are digitized with a 10-bit ADC and samples are transferred via ultra-low power ANT+ wireless technology. The preliminary results showed that the proposed wearable system is ideally suited for monitoring patient cardiac activity in real time at home, healthcare or sports facilities. It is highly suitable for integration in wearable ECG chest harness.