Tapas Mondal

Electrocardiography (ECG) is an ubiquitous vital sign health monitoring method used in the modern healthcare systems. Different designs of ECG system have been developed as alternatives to the common twelve-lead ECG systems. The recent approaches of the ECG system are focusing on the signal quality, portability and power consumption. In this work, an ECG sensing system is developed with capacitive electrodes that can be implemented on the clothes for long-term monitoring. The two-leads electrodes, contactless to the skin with a interface clothing material between the skin and electrodes, are connected to an ECG system that is responsible for signal processing and transmitting wirelessly to a computer for data acquisition and processing. Experiments are conducted on different types of clothing materials with various body movements introduced for observations. The results of the detected ECG signals are comparable to other ECG sensing system alternatives.