A wireless body area network for ECG measurement and smartphone-based heart attack detection demonstrated good functionality in three real-life user case scenarios.
A novel wireless body area network using a PIFA antenna and Android smartphone application demonstrated functional capability for ECG monitoring and heart attack detection.
This article describes a body area network (BAN) for measuring an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and transmitting it to a smartphone via Bluetooth for data analysis. The BAN uses a specially designed planar inverted F-antenna (PIFA) with a small form factor, realizable with low-fabricationcost techniques. Furthermore, due to the human body's electrical properties, the antenna was designed to enable surface-wave propagation around the body. The system utilizes the user's own smartphone for data processing, and the built-in communications can be used to raise an alarm if a heart attack is detected. This is managed by an application for Android smartphones that has been developed for this system. The good functionality of the system was confirmed in three real-life user case scenarios.
Wolgast et al. (Sat,) conducted a other in Heart attack (n=3). Wireless Body Area Network (BAN) was evaluated on System functionality. A wireless body area network for ECG measurement and smartphone-based heart attack detection demonstrated good functionality in three real-life user case scenarios.