Development of portable device to measure respiratory activity based on impedance pneumography

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a portable device to register the respiratory activity based on the impedance pneumography method. The core of the system is the analog Front-End ADS1292R of Texas Instrument®, which incorporates all necessary stages for performing the measurement of the respiratory activity. The developed device includes a Bluetooth transmission for sending data to mobile phone or Personal Computer (PC). The system was tested with a multiparameter patient simulator and also with a healthy subject.