Noncontact-Armband for Mobile ECG Monitoring System

Abstract

Nowadays people need a fine technology that could help them to monitor their healthcare information anytime anywhere, even while in stress condition such as workout or just basic daily activities. One of the vital signals to describe health information is ECG. Through ECG, people could explain about their heart information such as heartbeat, heart condition, heart disease, etc. Unfortunately most of the available healthcare devices do not provide the clinical data such as heart information. Many researchers tried to solve this problem by inventing wearable heart monitoring system based on the chest strap or the wristband, still the performance is way far from feasible. Thus, in this study a new system to monitor heart activity through ECG signal was built. The proposed system consists of some capacitive-coupled electrodes embedded in the armband. Capacitive-coupled technique is a very reliable long-term noncontact heart remote monitoring system. It could be used continuously without interrupting the daily activities of the user and is one of the most promising developments in healthcare technology. The proposed system is considered as reliable-robust and low-power-consumption ECG monitoring system. The reliable system was achieved by the careful placement of sensors, which is the arm (armband). Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) used as protocol for data transmission, this protocol was proposed to make the low power consumption system. In case of robust, the proposed system equipped with some advance analysis e.g. real time heart beat detection, subject identification, and also filtering part. Last but not least the proposed system uses cloud computing to make the system more convenient for the user.