A Body Area Network through Wireless Technology

TL;DR

This paper presents a wireless physiological monitoring system that captures, analyzes, and transmits ECG and EEG signals for medical assessment, integrating filtering techniques and mobile alerts.

Contribution

It introduces a wireless body area network system with signal analysis and alerting capabilities, including a user interface and SMS transmission for medical emergencies.

Findings

Encouraging comparison with manual recordings

Effective ECG and EEG signal de-noising

Successful wireless data transmission to physicians' phones

Abstract

A physiological signal monitoring system and alerting system using wireless technology is presented. The two types of physiological signal monitoring are captured from the body through leads and using the radio-frequency transmitting and receiving module the data are interfaced to computer systems. Furthering using a developed user interface module the captured signals are analyzed for checking abnormality. Any significant recordings are transmitted to the physicians hand phone by using external serial SMS modem. ECG signal de-noising is conducted by using low-pass and high-pass filters. EEG signals de-noising is conducted by using band-pass filters set. A comparative evaluation of the module with the manual recording shows encouraging results. The ECG and EEG pattern are presented in this paper.