Embroidered textile electrodes for long-term ECG monitoring

Abstract

Electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring is very important for the diagnosis and examination of heart-related diseases. Electrodes are the main components in monitoring and recording ECG signals. In this work, we have developed embroidered electrodes using two types of conductive yarns. ECG detection performance of the electrodes was measured at static and dynamic conditions and results were compared to standard Ag/AgCl electrodes. The electrodes were developed with three different dimensional areas to investigate the effect of the size on ECG acquisition performance. ECG signals collected from both the embroidered and standard Ag/AgCl electrodes have visible P, QRS, and T waveforms. Signals collected using large-size textile electrodes show better signal amplitude, which would reveal that the performance of the electrodes becomes improved with an increase in size. However, signals collect more artifacts dynamic conditions contain motion artifacts, indicating this aspect requires further improvement.