Control, Analysis, and Visualization of Body Sensor Streams

Personal medical monitoring technology can be used to in-strument the body and enable the exportation of a variety of physiological signals, either directly to mobile devices or via web services to a “health portal ” accessible by authorized viewers. For example, both warfighters and cardiac patients would benefit from continuous medical monitoring of their electrocardiograms (ECGs). Such a monitoring system would require at least two major subsystems: an ECG sensor with a processor and a radio that can be packaged for use on the body, and a base station that collects or forwards information so that the data is accessible to relevant entities. We devel-oped an end-to-end telemedicine system that enables on-line ECG data analysis and viewing of that data at a distance. We posit that such a system would prove valuable in military and civilian healthcare settings such as cardiology, emergency medicine, neonatal units, and assisted living centers. Keywords: Telemetry, Ambulatory Monitoring, Computer System