Normally-off technologies for healthcare appliance

Battery mass and power consumption of wearable system must be reduced because the key factors affecting wearable system usability are miniaturization and weight reduction. This report describes a wearable biosignal monitoring system using normally-off technologies to minimize the power consumption. Especially we focused on daily-life monitoring and electrocardiograph (ECG) processor. Our system employs Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FeRAM) and Near Field Communication (NFC) for normally-off data logging and normally-off data communication. A robust heart rate monitor and Cortex M0 core are used to on-node processing for logging data reduction.

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