A non-contact heart-rate monitoring system for long-term assessments of HRV

In this paper, we propose a two electrodes configuration for noncontact long-term cardiac monitoring. Our system was designed as an alternative to Holter devices. Unlike a traditional long-term monitoring equipment, our system is stationary and non-contact, the cardiac signal is acquired through a capacitive coupling between the sensor and the subject's body. The proposed system is the first prototype and a stepping stone in the development of a future bio-monitorisation platform dedicated to non-contact cardio-respiratory investigations.

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