Driver’s ECG Signal Detection and Transmission by Impulse-Radio-Based Human Body Communication Technology

• Main Authors: Jianqing Wang, Taku Kato, Daisuke Anzai
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 2016-12-01
• Series: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things
• Subjects: human body communication; impulse radio transceiver; electrocardiogram
• Online Access: https://eudl.eu/pdf/10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261526

In this study, we developed a wearable electrocardiogram(ECG) sensor with human body communication (HBC) tech-nology for vital data transmission in a car. The ECG signals were modulated with wideband pulse signals between 10 and 60 MHz based on an impulse radio (IR) scheme, which provides a data rate as high as 1.25 Mbps. To apply the HBC-based wearable ECG in a moving car, we employed a moving average algorithm to reduce the noises produced inthe received ECG signals due to the car's movement. As aresult, we conrmed a real-time ECG transmission of driver in the moving car with a reasonable accuracy.