Two wireless platforms for biomedical monitoring
IMEC together with its sister company IMEC-Nederland at the Holst Centre realized two new body-monitoring wireless sensor nodes which collect and process data from human body sensors and wirelessly transmit the data to a central monitoring system. The small size and low power consumption of both systems enables non-invasive and ambulatory monitoring of vital body parameters.
IMEC’s two-channel bio-potential wireless sensor node targets the simultaneous monitoring of two vital body signs provided by portable electrocardiogram (ECG, which monitors the heart activity), electromyogram (EMG, which monitors muscle contraction), electroencephalogram (EEG, which monitors brain waves) and electrooculogram (EOG, which monitors eye movement).
The second system is an eight-channel wireless EEG system integrated in a cube. The small size and autonomy of the systems increase the patient’s autonomy and quality of life and open up new applications for sports, entertainment, comfort monitoring, and other health and lifestyle products and services.
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July 30th, 2007 06:29
Dear Sirs:
I am looking for very small wireless accelerometer devices to use to monitor movement of hospitalized patients on avery fine scale. Th smallest package I can find commercially is about 5cm square …I would like a package about 1 cm square.. I would like this to be a Zigbee protocol device but I could design around Bluetooth…I have seen refence to packages at about the scale I need but none actually avaiable
ppete council, MSEE, MD