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Wireless Ecg
Wireless Ecg
Monitoring
Liang-Hung Wang1, Tsung-Yen Chen1, Shuenn-Yuh Lee1, Tai-Hsuan Yang2,
Shi-Yan Huang2, Jen-Hao Wu2, and Kuang-Hao Lin2
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INTRODUCTION
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sensor network and a local sensor network [6] [9]. The IEEE
802.15.4 ZigBee simple protocol specification is suitable to the
body sensor network in a near-body application that provides
the communication between the acquisition auxiliaries and the
wearable device (e.g., watch). The local sensor network is the
intermediate medium between the wearable device and the
portable facility (e.g., mobile phone and PDA) for a simple data
analysis. In addition, the patient can send personal
identification and examination data to the healthcare center or
hospital over the internet or through wireless communication
systems. The local sensor network not only monitors personal
health, but also conveys the advice of the doctor.
The commercial components with low power for
bio-signal acquisition system (such as ECG signal) are difficult
to find for portability and durability application. Therefore, the
ECG acquisition circuits, a baseband processor, and an RF
front-end transmitter are intended to coordinate the low power
and high integration wireless bio-signal acquisition SoC
(WBSA-SoC); the system block diagram is shown in Fig. 3.
Once these data reach the ECG receiver, they can be displayed
on the graphical user interface on a PC or a portable device
(e.g., Advanced RISC (reduced instruction set computing)
Machine (ARM) based displayer). In particular, the ECG
coordinator located in the ECG receiver, which is also
controlled by the BioZigbee firmware, is responsible for the
transmission of the ECG signal to avoid collision [10]. The
WBSA-SoC is implemented in the TSMC 0.18-m standard
CMOS process to feature the low power and longevity
requirement.
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MEASUREMENT RESULTS
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Fig.4 (a) The layout placement of proposed WBSA-SoC, (b) the chip
microphotograph, and (c) the daughter board of WBSA-SoC
Fig.5 The measurement results of AFE circuits on the real human body
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Fig.6. (a) The experiment environment setup, (b) the measurement result by real human body, and (c) the ECG bio-signal display in the ARM-based displayer
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CONCLUSION
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to thank the Chip Implementation Center
(CIC) and the National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan, R.O.C., under
Grants NSC101-2220-E-006-025, NSC101-2628-E-006-022, and NSC
101-3113-P-006-025, respectively, for their support of this work.
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