Low power wireless acquisition module for wearable health monitoring systems

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 704-707

  Figueiredo, C P ^a,b   Becher, K ^b   Hoffmann, K P ^b   Mendes, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks and telemetric systems; Low power; Wearable health monitoring; Wireless sensing methods

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION MODULES; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; ANALOG FRONT-END; CONNECTING WIRES; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CURRENT CONSUMPTION; ECG MONITORING; HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; LONG-TERM CONTINUOUS MONITORING; LOW POWER; LOW POWER WIRELESS; POWER CONSUMPTION; SENSOR DATA; TELEMETRIC SYSTEMS; WEARABLE HEALTH MONITORING; WIRELESS LINK; WIRELESS SENSING; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; HEALTH; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

MONITORING;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; POWER SUPPLY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEMETRY;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY;

EID: 78650823204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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