Wearable Heart Rate Monitoring Device Communicating in 5G ISM Band for IoHT.
Ilaria MarascoGiovanni NiroSuleyman Mahircan DemirLorenzo MarzanoLuca FachechiFrancesco RizziDanilo DemarchiPaolo Motto RosAntonella D'OrazioMarco GrandeMassimo De VittorioPublished in: Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Advances in wearable device technology pave the way for wireless health monitoring for medical and non-medical applications. In this work, we present a wearable heart rate monitoring platform communicating in the sub-6GHz 5G ISM band. The proposed device is composed of an Aluminium Nitride (AlN) piezoelectric sensor, a patch antenna, and a custom printed circuit board (PCB) for data acquisition and transmission. The experimental results show that the presented system can acquire heart rate together with diastolic and systolic duration, which are related to heart relaxation and contraction, respectively, from the posterior tibial artery. The overall system dimension is 20 mm by 40 mm, and the total weight is 20 g, making this device suitable for daily utilization. Furthermore, the system allows the simultaneous monitoring of multiple subjects, or a single patient from multiple body locations by using only one reader. The promising results demonstrate that the proposed system is applicable to the Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT), and particularly Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) applications.
Keyphrases
- heart rate
- blood pressure
- healthcare
- heart rate variability
- left ventricular
- physical activity
- heart failure
- public health
- health information
- body mass index
- mental health
- total knee arthroplasty
- weight loss
- high throughput
- big data
- risk assessment
- gold nanoparticles
- human health
- drug induced
- data analysis
- anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- health promotion