Mobile wearable device for long term monitoring of vital signs

In long-term prevention and in rehabilitation of health of elderly people the recording of vital signs plays an important role. Especially the progress of rehabilitation can be deduced from the recording of an electrocardigram (ECG), blood pressure and body temperature. In this paper we present a wireless coupled recording device for long-term monitoring of these vital sign signals. We record the ECG, the blood pressure and the skin temperature and include a 3D-acceleration sensor for the determination of the movements during recording. To deal with motion artifacts in all recorded properties we use data fusion to reject or correct distorted vital sign signals.

► Single device for the recording of ECG, bloodpressure, temperature and movement.
► Easy-to-use design for wirst wearing, especially for elderly people.
► Common time base enables the correlation of data of different sensors.
► Recorded data transmission with bluetooth communication unit.