title: A low-cost biomedical signal transceiver based on a Bluetooth wireless system.
abstract: Most current wireless biomedical signal transceivers use range-limiting communication. This work presents a low-cost biomedical signal transceiver that uses Bluetooth wireless technology. The design is implemented in a modular form to be adaptable to different types of biomedical signals. The signal front end obtains and processes incoming signals, which are then transmitted via a microcontroller and wireless module. Near real-time receive software in LabVIEW was developed to demonstrate the system capability. The completed transmitter prototype successfully transmits ECG signals, and is able to simultaneously send multiple signals. The sampling rate of the transmitter is fast enough to send up to thirteen ECG signals simultaneously, with an error rate below 0.1% for transmission exceeding 65 meters. A low-cost wireless biomedical transceiver has many applications, such as real-time monitoring of patients with a known condition in non-clinical settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Manitoba, Canada and Institute of Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada. fazel@ee.umanitoba.ca
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fazel-Rezai
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pauls
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Slawinski
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002170:Canada; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface