Wearable approach for continuous ECG--and activity patient-monitoring

J Muhlsteff; O Such; R Schmidt; M Perkuhn; H Reiter; J Lauter; J Thijs; G Musch; M Harris

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403638

Wearable approach for continuous ECG--and activity patient-monitoring

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2004:2004:2184-7. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403638.

Authors

J Muhlsteff¹, O Such, R Schmidt, M Perkuhn, H Reiter, J Lauter, J Thijs, G Musch, M Harris

Affiliation

¹ Philips Research Aachen, Aachen, Germany.

PMID: 17272158
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403638

Abstract

The paper describes an approach to monitor a person's ECG and activity continuously with functional clothing. A belt with integrated electronics has been developed and has proven long-term robustness of all electrical components. A low-power module measures the ECG signal as well as the acceleration (2-axis) and stores data continuously up to two days. A user test has been performed to evaluate the belt according to system performance at different daily-life activities like sleeping, walking and so on. System parameters are ECG-signal quality, system up-time, and ECG-signal coverage during a day.