An ECG Monitoring and Alarming System Based On Android Smart Phone

Xiaoqiang Guo, Xiaohui Duan, Hongqiao Gao, Anpeng Huang, Bingli Jiao

Center for Wireless Communication and Signal Processing, Peking University, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/cn.2013.53B2105                

Abstract

ECG monitoring in daily life is an important means of treating heart disease. To make it easier for the medical to monitor the ECG of their patients outside the hospital, we designed and developed an ECG monitoring and alarming system based on Android smart phone. In our system, an ECG device collects the ECG signal and transmits it to an Android phone. The Android phone detects alarms which come from the ECG devices. When alarms occur, Android phone will capture the ECG images and the details about the alarms, and sends them to the cloud Alarm Server (AS). Once received, AS push the messages to doctors’ phone, so the doctors could see the ECG images and alarm details on their mobile phone. In our system, high resolution ECG pictures are transmitted to doctors’ phone in a user-friendly way, which can help doctors keep track of their patient’s condition easily.

Keywords

ECG Monitoring System; Android Smart Phone; Alarm

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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