A wireless blood pressure monitoring system for personal health management

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010:2010:2196-9. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5625944.

Abstract

In this paper, we developed a wireless blood pressure monitoring system which provides a useful tool for users to measure and manage their daily blood pressure values. This system includes an ARM-based blood pressure monitor with a ZigBee wireless transmission module and a PC-based management unit with graphic user interface and database. The wireless blood pressure monitor can measure the blood pressure and heart rate and then store and forward the measuring information to the management unit through the ZigBee wireless transmission. On the management unit, user can easy to see their blood pressure variation in the past using a line chart. Accuracy of blood pressure measurement has been verified by a commercial blood pressure simulator and shown the bias of systolic blood pressure is ≤ 1 mmHg and the bias of diastolic blood pressure is ≤ 1.4 mmHg.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Blood Pressure
  • Blood Pressure Determination / instrumentation*
  • Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods*
  • Blood Pressure Monitors
  • Calibration
  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Simulation
  • Diastole
  • Equipment Design
  • Heart Rate
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
  • Programming Languages
  • Systole