Open AccessIntegrated System Based on Wireless Sensors Network for Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring
Author(s) -
Cristian Rotariu,
Vasile Manta,
Razvan Ciobotariu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2013.01016
Subject(s) - cardiac arrhythmia , wireless sensor network , computer science , cardiac monitoring , wireless , real time computing , embedded system , computer network , telecommunications , medicine , cardiology , atrial fibrillation
This paper describes the research carried out for designing and producing an integrated system for monitoring patients suffering from cardiac arrhythmias. Our system is based on a wireless sensors network (WSN) and can be used in hospital or at home. It is able to measure and transmit the patient's heart rate (HR) by radio to a central telemonitoring station. The HR is continuously computed from the electrocardiographic signals using custom developed devices. These devices are attached to the patient and are based on low power microcontrollers and wireless transceivers. The data is uploaded through WSN on the central telemonitoring station. The software running on the telemonitoring station receives the HRs from monitored patients through WSN, displays them as temporal waveforms and activates the alerts when HR arrhythmia is detected. An experimental system for cardiac arrhythmia has been designed, implemented and tested