A wearable multi-parameter physiological system

Abstract

We developed and tested a health monitoring device capable of measuring a subject's ECG, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, respiration, temperature and motion - almost equivalent to the feature set of a hospital bedside patient monitor. The main contribution of this paper include: the device has been a highly integrated design incorporating the radio and all associated circuitry on a single PCB; a new non-invasive and cuff-less measurement of blood pressure using pulse wave transit time has been designed and validated. The device stores data locally on microSD flash and/or transmits via Bluetooth and/or Zigbee. We have developed a bandage vest which embeds reusable electrodes for data acquisition as well as a desktop and mobile application for real-time data telemetry. We have evaluated the performance of the device in capturing and recording ambulatory data and found the device easy to use and with high precision. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.