Key result
A low-cost, portable FPGA-based telecardiac system was designed to continuously analyze ECG signals and automatically alert physicians and caretakers via SMS upon detecting arrhythmias.
This technical paper demonstrates the feasibility of an FPGA-based wearable telemonitoring system for real-time arrhythmia detection and automated emergency alerting.
May enable affordable remote arrhythmia alerts in low-resource settings; leaves open clinical validation before any practice adoption.
This paper aims in design and development of low cost, light weight, portable Telecardiac system for remote monitoring of cardiac patients. The proposed system employs a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a reconfigurable platform that performs online analysis of the acquired ECG signal continuously. FPGA based Arrhythmia detector, implemented on a DE2 Altera Cyclone II board is interfaced with GSM/GPS module to alert the physician on a mobile phone about the imminent fatal condition and location of the patient. If the portable system detects any arrhythmia, it automatically sends an alarm condition to the patient's care taker and ambulance centre by sending an SMS that has information about the abnormal condition and location of the patient.
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Kavya et al. (2014) studied High risk cardiac patients. FPGA-based Telecardiac system was evaluated. A low-cost, portable FPGA-based telecardiac system was designed to continuously analyze ECG signals and automatically alert physicians and caretakers via SMS upon detecting arrhythmias.
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