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Nowadays, Heart related diseases are on the rise. Cardiac arrest is quoted as the major contributor to sudden and unexpected death rate in the modern stress filled lifestyle around the globe. A system that warns the person about the onset of the disease earlier automatically will be a boon to the society. This is achievable by deploying advances in wireless technology to the existing patient monitoring...
Heart diseases are the serious health threats to human beings. Traditional cardiac monitoring systems are unsatisfactory to prevent the sudden death events caused by heart diseases. A pervasive cardiac monitoring system is thus developed, which can provide a real-time continuous cardiac care and arrhythmias detection service for any person at any time in any place. This paper gives a detailed description...
Nowadays, the electrocardiograph (ECG) is certainly the most effective tool to identity anomalies in the cardiac activity. In this paper, we propose a remote medical monitoring system for ECG data. The system is composed of two parts, which are portable remote medical monitoring unit and the monitoring center. The portable remote medical monitoring unit consists of Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) with...
In this paper we propose a new design of a wearable sensor-system produced in three different sizes for recording anywhere and at anytime three pseudo-orthogonal ECG leads I, II and V2 according to the Mason-Likar system. It looks like a bib and aims to provide any individual with a sensor-system suitably adapted to his/her morphology. Our research goal is to establish for each citizen the most appropriate...
Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring gives important information about the fetus health state during pregnancy. This paper presents a new prototype for remote fetal monitoring. The device will allow to monitor FHR in a domiciliary context and to send fetal ECG traces to a hospital facility, where clinicians can interpret them. In this way the mother could receive prompt feedback about fetal wellbeing...
The CHRONIOUS system addresses a smart wearable platform, based on multi-parametric sensor data processing, for monitoring people suffering from chronic diseases in long-stay setting. Several signals are being recorded through wearable sensors and are stored together with additional information, entered by the patient. An Intelligent System, placed at a Smart Assistant Device, analyzes incoming data...
Optimizing performance of wireless sensor networks leads to trade-offs between local computation and communication. With the usage of on-node processing, the lifetime of the sensor nodes can be extended as raw data does not need to be sent out and logged by an external device. In this paper we present our approach for on-node processing of ECG signals to signal abnormal heart rate conditions. We develop...
With the Healthcare Delivery Systems being overloaded in the developing and densely populated countries, such as India and China, it is imperative to have efficient and cost-effective systems and processes. Building fresh leadership acumen in a complex and changing environment, establishing organizational excellence and designing new service delivery models will help us face the challenges. Building...
As the number of cardiovascular related deaths is increasing not only in the western world but also in the developing countries, and there are only limited cardiac diagnosis related resources, it is expected that many healthcare centres will turn to automated diagnosis of ECGs for large number of patients. While systems and tools have been proposed and developed for a handful of cardiovascular diseases,...
Critically ill new born babies admitted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are extremely tiny and vulnerable to external disturbance. Smart Jacket proposed in this paper is the vision of a wearable unobtrusive continuous monitoring system realized by body sensor networks (BSN) and wireless communication. The smart jacket aims for providing reliable health monitoring as well as a comfortable...
To provide a reliable assistance to patients, emergency and intensive care systems have increased demands for quality of service at different levels, including at the MAC layer. The low power real time (LPRT) MAC protocol presents suitable characteristics to address these demands due to its efficient bandwidth allocation, low energy consumption, and bounded latency. Yet, this MAC protocol may still...
In this paper conceptions and architectural considerations of the OSAMI project and their specializations towards the requirements of the e-health domain by the German subproject (OSAMI-D) are described. Along with the expected shift of healthcare service between stationary towards ambulatory care, a standardized way of integrating medical data acquired at home into the IT infrastructure of hospitals...
In this paper, novel microchip architecture for a "smart electronic electrode" has been proposed. Furthermore, a new concept for wearable electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring system especially designed for ubiquitous healthcare is described. The patient can wear single Active-Cable connected smart electronic electrodes with wireless transmission of ECG signals to a dedicated Personal Health...
Smart Clothing is a project that combines research in textiles materials and wireless sensor and actuator networks in the context of human body monitoring with statistical methods for the data analysis and treatment. This project aims mainly to aid in the monitoring of the foetal movement in the last four weeks of pregnancy. Besides the integration of sensors in the garment there will be needed a...
Changes in heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RespR) may be used as markers of early decompensation in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients monitored at home. Aiming at improving quality of care and at reducing hospitalization rate and health care costs in CHF, progress in technology has led to the development of small portable and even wearable devices for the acquisition and transmission of relevant...
The use of stroke monitoring to detect patient or old people with the intent to prevent patients dead after heart operation fails. This paper presents portable patient monitoring system laboratory prototype, which provides patient electrocardiogram signals transferring via mobile extension technology with old version mobile phone in Thailand. At the human location, a wireless old version mobile phone...
The basic idea of this work was to develop user- friendly mobile wireless ECG and motion activity recording device, software for real time signal analysis and warning system based on ordinary or pocket PC and designed for home care patients with cardiac risk. The mobile patient device includes 3 channel ECG front-end recorder, 3-axis accelerometer and Bluetooth module. Feedback signaling to patient...
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