Wireless chest wearable vital sign monitoring platform for hypertension.

Janjua, G.; Guldenring, D.; Finlay, D.; McLaughlin, J.

Abstract

Hypertension, a silent killer, is the biggest challenge of the 21 st century in public health agencies worldwide. World Health Organization (WHO) statistic shows that the mortality rate of hypertension is 9.4 million per year and causes 55.3% of total deaths in cardiovascular (CV) patients. Early detection and prevention of hypertension can significantly reduce the CV mortality. We are presenting a wireless chest wearable vital sign monitoring platform. It measures Electrocardiogram (ECG), Photoplethsmogram (PPG) and Ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals and sends data over Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to mobile phone-acts as a gateway. A custom android application relays the data to thingspeak server where MATLAB based offline analysis estimates the blood pressure. A server reacts on the health of subject to friends and family on the social media - twitter. The chest provides a natural position for the sensor to capture legitimate signals for hypertension condition. We have done a clinical technical evaluation of prototypes on 11 normotensive subjects, 9 males 2 females.

Citation

JANJUA, G., GULDENRING, D., FINLAY, D. and MCLAUGHLIN, J. 2017. Wireless chest wearable vital sign monitoring platform for hypertension. In Proceedings of the 39th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society annual international conference 2017 (EMBC 2017): smarter technology for a healthier world, 11-15 July 2017, Jeju, South Korea. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 821-824. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036950

• Conference Name: 39th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society annual international conference 2017 (EMBC 2017): smarter technology for a healthier world
• Conference Location: Jeju, South Korea
• Start Date: Jul 11, 2017
• End Date: Jul 15, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Apr 4, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Sep 15, 2017
• Publication Date: Sep 14, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 23, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 13, 2021
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Pages: 821-824
• Series ISSN: 1557-170X
• ISBN: 9781509028092
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036950
• Keywords: Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Bluetooth; Cardiovascular system: Diseases; Electrocardiography: Patient monitoring: Smart phone: Wireless sensor networks
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1223251