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An IoT-cloud Based Wearable ECG Monitoring System for Smart Healthcare

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Public healthcare has been paid an increasing attention given the exponential growth human population and medical expenses. It is well known that an effective health monitoring system can detect abnormalities of health conditions in time and make diagnoses according to the gleaned data. As a vital approach to diagnose heart diseases, ECG monitoring is widely studied and applied. However, nearly all existing portable ECG monitoring systems cannot work without a mobile application, which is responsible for data collection and display. In this paper, we propose a new method for ECG monitoring based on Internet-of-Things (IoT) techniques. ECG data are gathered using a wearable monitoring node and are transmitted directly to the IoT cloud using Wi-Fi. Both the HTTP and MQTT protocols are employed in the IoT cloud in order to provide visual and timely ECG data to users. Nearly all smart terminals with a web browser can acquire ECG data conveniently, which has greatly alleviated the cross-platform issue. Experiments are carried out on healthy volunteers in order to verify the reliability of the entire system. Experimental results reveal that the proposed system is reliable in collecting and displaying real-time ECG data, which can aid in the primary diagnosis of certain heart diseases.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program 2015AA01A705), the China Natural Science Funding under the grant 61331009, the National Key Technology R&D Program of China under the grant 2015ZX03002009-004, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under the grant 2014ZD03-02.

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  1. Intelligent Computing and Communication (IC2) Lab Key Lab, Key Lab of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, 100088, China

    Zhe Yang, Qihao Zhou & Kan Zheng

  2. State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Lei Lei

  3. College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia

    Wei Xiang

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Yang, Z., Zhou, Q., Lei, L. et al. An IoT-cloud Based Wearable ECG Monitoring System for Smart Healthcare. J Med Syst 40, 286 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-016-0644-9

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