Keeping a Beat on the Heart

  • Authors:
  • Kathy J. Liszka;Michael A. Mackin;Michael J. Lichter;David W. York;Dilip Pillai;David S. Rosenbaum

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Akron;NASA Glenn Research Center;NASA Glenn Research Center;NASA Glenn Research Center;-;Case Western Reserve University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A real-time remote arrhythmia monitoring system prototype developed at NASA collects ECG signals from mobile or homebound patients, combines GPS location data, and transmits both to a remote station for display and monitoring. In the end-to-end system architecture, ECG signals are collected from a patient using an event recorder and transmitted to a PDA using Bluetooth, a short-range wireless technology. The PDA concurrently tracks the patientýs location via a connection to a GPS receiver. A long-distance link is established via a standard Internet connection over a 2.5 generation GSM/GPRS cellular, wireless infrastructure. The digital signal is transmitted to a remote computer and viewed using embedded Web technology for monitoring by medical professionals.