An Experimental Investigation of Pulse Measurement by Means of a Plethysmographic Sensor Integrated in a ZigBee Medical Network

This paper aims to investigate the performance of a system consisting of plethysmographic sensors used to measure the human pulse or heart rate, and ZigBee wireless networks used to collect the data in view of processing and storing. A demo system build around a MICROCHIP development kit PICDEM Z is described. Some conclusion derived on the basis of the observations obtained during the implementation of the demo system and during the measurement campaign are given.

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