TY - GEN
T1 - A wearable mobile electrocardiogram measurement device with novel dry polymer-based electrodes
AU - Wang, I. Jan
AU - Liao, Lun De
AU - Wang, Yu Te
AU - Chen, Chi Yu
AU - Lin, Bor-Shyh
AU - Lu, Shao Wei
AU - Lin, Chin-Teng
PY - 2010/11/21
Y1 - 2010/11/21
N2 - A Wearable Mobile Electrocardiogram Monitoring System (WMEMS), which mainly consists of a wearable Electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition device, a mobile phone with global positioning system, and a healthcare server, was developed in this study. Most of telemedicine systems for long-term ECG monitoring focus on the application of communication techniques. However, how to monitor long-term ECG state more comfortably in daily life is also an important issue. In this study, a novel dry foam electrode was designed and applied for the wearable ECG acquisition device in our WMEMS. These novel dry foam electrodes without conduction gels can provide good conductivity to acquire ECG signal effectively, and can adapt to irregular skin surface to maintain low skin-electrode impedance and reduce motion artifacts under movement. Therefore, the wearable ECG acquisition device is suitable for long-term ECG monitoring in daily life. Moreover, by combining with wireless communication technique, our WMEMS can monitor patient's heart rate continuously anywhere in the globe if they are under the coverage of GSM cellular network. Experiment results showed that our WMEMS really provides a good system prototype for ECG telemedicine applications.
AB - A Wearable Mobile Electrocardiogram Monitoring System (WMEMS), which mainly consists of a wearable Electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition device, a mobile phone with global positioning system, and a healthcare server, was developed in this study. Most of telemedicine systems for long-term ECG monitoring focus on the application of communication techniques. However, how to monitor long-term ECG state more comfortably in daily life is also an important issue. In this study, a novel dry foam electrode was designed and applied for the wearable ECG acquisition device in our WMEMS. These novel dry foam electrodes without conduction gels can provide good conductivity to acquire ECG signal effectively, and can adapt to irregular skin surface to maintain low skin-electrode impedance and reduce motion artifacts under movement. Therefore, the wearable ECG acquisition device is suitable for long-term ECG monitoring in daily life. Moreover, by combining with wireless communication technique, our WMEMS can monitor patient's heart rate continuously anywhere in the globe if they are under the coverage of GSM cellular network. Experiment results showed that our WMEMS really provides a good system prototype for ECG telemedicine applications.
KW - Atrial fibrillation Telemedicine
KW - Dry foam electrode
KW - ECG
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79951598830&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TENCON.2010.5686658
DO - 10.1109/TENCON.2010.5686658
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951598830
SN - 9781424468904
T3 - IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON
SP - 379
EP - 384
BT - TENCON 2010 - 2010 IEEE Region 10 Conference
T2 - 2010 IEEE Region 10 Conference, TENCON 2010
Y2 - 21 November 2010 through 24 November 2010
ER -