Elements of a real-time vital signs monitoring system for players during a football game

We have developed a real-time vital signs monitoring system for two years in 2012 and 2013. Just by putting a single vital sensor node to the back waist position of each player and placing four data collection nodes around a field, the system can monitor at a note PC heart rate (HR), energy expenditure (EE) and body temperature (BT) for all players during a football game in real-time, periodically and reliably. The system is based on novel vital sensing technique and wireless data transmission technique. This paper introduces the two techniques in the system, presents some problems encountered in the system development and discusses solutions for them.

[1]  Shinsuke Hara,et al.  Cancellation of motion artifact induced by exercise for PPG-based heart rate sensing , 2014, 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

[2]  Kazunobu Okazaki,et al.  Effects of high-intensity interval walking training on physical fitness and blood pressure in middle-aged and older people. , 2007, Mayo Clinic proceedings.

[3]  Shinsuke Hara,et al.  Design of wireless waist-mounted vital sensor node for athletes — Performance evaluation of microcontrollers suitable for signal processing of ECG signal at waist part , 2014, 2014 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS).

[4]  Shinsuke Hara,et al.  Development of a real-time vital data collection system from players during a football game , 2013, 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013).

[5]  Shinsuke Hara,et al.  Performance evaluation of packet forwarding methods in real-time vital data collection for players during a football game , 2014, 2014 8th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT).

[6]  Shinsuke Hara,et al.  Heart rate detection from waist ECG/PCG sensors for a vital signal acquisition system for athletes , 2012, 2012 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications.

[7]  M. Karvonen,et al.  The effects of training on heart rate; a longitudinal study. , 1957, Annales medicinae experimentalis et biologiae Fenniae.