Hardware optimization of a real-time telediagnosis system

Abstract

Integration of home and healthcare environments and the need for precise and detailed diagnosis data are the driving forces of the recent research works in the area of wireless medical devices. The aim of this paper is to make a comparative analysis on various research works done in this sector in the last couple of years and suggest some approaches for the design of a portable, power efficient, affordable and ergonomic system with the assurance of quick and reliable response. We focus on the relative-discussion on various biosignal analysis methods, circuit design, microcontrollers, wireless communication protocols on the basis of performance, reliability, size and cost regarding the design of a telediagnosis system. Though we have limited this paper on the ECG analysis only, the proposed hardware can be extended anytime for monitoring other biosignals.