Wearable platform for cardiac rhythm monitoring and signal processing

This paper present a wearable platform, for cardiac signal monitoring, developed by using conductive threads into a cloth article. For reading the human body, impedance variations were used flexible electrodes developed for the wearable ECG platform. The dry ECG electrodes have been developed by knitting technology. The electrodes have been integrated into the textile assembly together with the electronics for signal conditioning and transmission. By means of the comparative analysis between the classic system based on coupling gels and wearable type (dry textile electrodes) have been observed a number of differences from the point of view of signal quality. The classical electrodes based on conductive gels provide a better skin contact than the textile electrodes. In the case of system based on the textile electrodes have observe the deficiencies in the accuracy of the signal supplied. These deficiencies can be corrected by laborious filtering of the signal.