A handle electrode system for measuring heart rate while riding a bicycle

Masutaka Watanabe; Sosuke Tsukamoto; Hiroshi Hoshino

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649210

A handle electrode system for measuring heart rate while riding a bicycle

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008:2008:542-5. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649210.

Authors

Masutaka Watanabe¹, Sosuke Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Hoshino

Affiliation

¹ Master's Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Ishizaka, Hatoyama, Hiki, Saitama 350-0394, Japan. trick@lsi.f.dendai.ac.jp

PMID: 19162713
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649210

Abstract

In this paper, a handle-electrode system is proposed for obtaining the heart rate of a user while riding a bicycle. The system was designed to measure the user's heart rate by only gripping the handle of a bicycle. Three electrodes made from conductive cloth were adhered to the handle. A method detecting heart-rate from the obtained electrocardiogram was also proposed. To assess the applicability of the proposed system, a simple experiment was performed. The experiment was performed in four conditions of road surfaces; lawn, asphalt, a tiled, and an uneven road. Experimental result suggests that the proposed system can be useful for obtaining R waves while riding a bicycle.

Publication types

Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

Bicycling / physiology*
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / methods
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
Electrodes*
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Exercise Test / instrumentation*
Exercise Test / methods*
Heart Rate / physiology*
Humans
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Sports Medicine / instrumentation*