A wearable ECG acquisition system with compact planar-fashionable circuit board-based shirt.
A wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition system implemented with planar-fashionable circuit board (P-FCB)-based shirt is presented. The proposed system removes cumbersome wires from conventional Holter monitor system for convenience. Dry electrodes screen-printed directly on fabric enables long-term monitoring without skin irritation. The ECG monitoring shirt exploits a monitoring chip with a group of electrodes around the body, and both the electrodes and the interconnection are implemented using P-FCB to enhance wearability and to lower production cost. The characteristics of P-FCB electrode are shown, and the prototype hardware is implemented to successfully verify the proposed concept.
Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea. jerald@kaist.ac.kr
Jerald
J
Yoo
Long
L
Yan
Seulki
S
Lee
Hyejung
H
Kim
Hoi-Jun
HJ
Yoo
D003020:Clothing; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted