The increasing request of patients, suffering of chronic diseases, who wish to stay at home rather then in a hospital and also the increasing need of homecare monitoring for elderly people, have lead to a high demand of wearable medical devices. Also, extended patient monitoring during normal activity has become a very important target. Low power consumption is essential in continuously monitoring of vital-signs and can be achieved combining very high storage capacity, wireless communication, and ultra-low power circuits together with firmware management of power consumption. This approach allows the patient to move unconstraint around an area, city or country. In this paper the design of ultra low power wearable monitoring devices based on ultra low power circuits, high storage memory flash, bluetooth communication and the firmware for the management of the monitoring device are presented.
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Lupu, R.G., Stan, A., Ungureanu, F. (2009). Patient Monitoring: Wearable Device for Patient Monitoring. In: Ao, SI., Gelman, L. (eds) Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2311-7_56
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