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An Ultra Low Power Personalizable Wrist Worn ECG Monitor Integrated With IoT Infrastructure

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Beach, Christopher, Krachunov, Sammy, Pope, James, Fafoutis, Xenofon, Piechocki, Robert J., Craddock, Ian, Casson, Alexander J.·2018·IEEE Access

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the U.K., motivating the use of long term wearable devices to monitor the heart in out-of-the-clinic settings. While a wide number of heart rate measuring wearable devices are now available, they are principally based upon photoplethysmography rather than the electrocardiogram (ECG) and arestand-alonedevices rather than integrated with Internet-of-Things infrastructures which collect and combine information from a wide range of sensors. This paper presents a wrist worn ECG sensor which integrates with the SPHERE IoT platform—the UK’s demonstrator platform for health monitoring in the home environment, combining a range of on-person and ambient sensors. The ECG device integrates ultralow power consumption electronics with personalizable 3-D printed casings which maintain gold standard Ag/AgCl electrodes to provide measurements of the raw ECG waveform, heart rate, and meanNN and SDNN heart rate variability parameters. The end device allows for more than a month of battery life for a weight of <50 g including the watch straps. The design and heart sensing performance of the device are presented in detail, together with the integration with the SPHERE IoT platform.

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  • Techniques that use PTT or PAT for BP estimation require a second signal, such as ECG at the wrist or a signal at the chest.

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Authors
Beach, C., Krachunov, S., Pope, J., Fafoutis, X., Piechocki, R. J., Craddock, I., & Casson, A. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Manchester (GB)
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • University of Bristol (GB)
  • Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Venue
IEEE Access
Published
2018
Volume
6
Pages
44010-44021
ISSN
2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2887595165
Cited by
91
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 12
FWCI
4.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Access (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Explore Bristol Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K031910/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › ECG Monitoring and Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Wireless Body Area Networks
Keywords
electrocardiogram, ultra-low power electronics, wearable health monitoring, Internet of Things, Ag/AgCl electrodes, heart rate variability, heart rate measurement, battery life, cardiovascular disease monitoring, home health monitoring

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