SeisMote: A Multi-Sensor Wireless Platform for Cardiovascular Monitoring in Laboratory, Daily Life, and Telemedicine

This article presents a new wearable platform, SeisMote, for the monitoring of cardiovascular function in controlled conditions and daily life. It consists of a wireless network of sensorized nodes providing simultaneous multiple measures of electrocardiogram (ECG), acceleration, rotational velocity, and photoplethysmogram (PPG) from different body areas. A custom low-power transmission protocol was developed to allow the concomitant real-time monitoring of 32 signals (16 bit @200 Hz) from up to 12 nodes with a jitter in the among-node time synchronization lower than 0.2 ms. The BluetoothLE protocol may be used when only a single node is needed. Data can also be collected in the off-line mode. Seismocardiogram and pulse transit times can be derived from the collected data to obtain additional information on cardiac mechanics and vascular characteristics. The employment of the system in the field showed recordings without data gaps caused by transmission errors, and the duration of each battery charge exceeded 16 h. The system is currently used to investigate strategies of hemodynamic regulation in different vascular districts (through a multisite assessment of ECG and PPG) and to study the propagation of precordial vibrations along the thorax. The single-node version is presently exploited to monitor cardiac patients during telerehabilitation.

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