Vital Block and Vital Sign Server for ECG and Vital Sign Monitoring in a Portable u-Vital System
An important function in the future healthcare system involves measuring a patient’s vital signs, transmitting the measured vital signs to a smart device or a management server, analyzing it in real-time, and informing the patient or medical staff. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) incorpo...
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doaj-8533ed6e9c6643bc86b57fee907741692020-11-25T01:45:08ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-02-01204108910.3390/s20041089s20041089Vital Block and Vital Sign Server for ECG and Vital Sign Monitoring in a Portable u-Vital SystemTae Wuk Bae0Kee Koo Kwon1Kyu Hyung Kim2Daegu-Gyeongbuk Research Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daegu 42994, KoreaDaegu-Gyeongbuk Research Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daegu 42994, KoreaDaegu-Gyeongbuk Research Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daegu 42994, KoreaAn important function in the future healthcare system involves measuring a patient’s vital signs, transmitting the measured vital signs to a smart device or a management server, analyzing it in real-time, and informing the patient or medical staff. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) incorporates information technology (IT) into patient monitoring device (PMD) and is developing traditional measurement devices into healthcare information systems. In the study, a portable ubiquitous-Vital (u-Vital) system is developed and consists of a Vital Block (VB), a small PMD, and Vital Sign Server (VSS), which stores and manages measured vital signs. Specifically, VBs collect a patient’s electrocardiogram (ECG), blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), non-invasive blood pressure (NiBP), body temperature (BT) in real-time, and the collected vital signs are transmitted to a VSS via wireless protocols such as WiFi and Bluetooth. Additionally, an efficient R-point detection algorithm was also proposed for real-time processing and long-term ECG analysis. Experiments demonstrated the effectiveness of measurement, transmission, and analysis of vital signs in the proposed portable u-Vital system.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/4/1089vital signiomtpatient monitoring devicehealthcarewireless |
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Vital Block and Vital Sign Server for ECG and Vital Sign Monitoring in a Portable u-Vital System |
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Vital Block and Vital Sign Server for ECG and Vital Sign Monitoring in a Portable u-Vital System |
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Vital Block and Vital Sign Server for ECG and Vital Sign Monitoring in a Portable u-Vital System |
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An important function in the future healthcare system involves measuring a patient’s vital signs, transmitting the measured vital signs to a smart device or a management server, analyzing it in real-time, and informing the patient or medical staff. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) incorporates information technology (IT) into patient monitoring device (PMD) and is developing traditional measurement devices into healthcare information systems. In the study, a portable ubiquitous-Vital (u-Vital) system is developed and consists of a Vital Block (VB), a small PMD, and Vital Sign Server (VSS), which stores and manages measured vital signs. Specifically, VBs collect a patient’s electrocardiogram (ECG), blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), non-invasive blood pressure (NiBP), body temperature (BT) in real-time, and the collected vital signs are transmitted to a VSS via wireless protocols such as WiFi and Bluetooth. Additionally, an efficient R-point detection algorithm was also proposed for real-time processing and long-term ECG analysis. Experiments demonstrated the effectiveness of measurement, transmission, and analysis of vital signs in the proposed portable u-Vital system. |
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