Heart Rate (HR) monitors have become pervasive tools, with a great impact on fitness as well as on healthcare. The development of smart wearable systems to monitor physiological parameters addresses the need to manage real-time data for both personal and medical needs. Therefore, it is fundamental to assess and improve the reliability of these devices in HR measurement. The objective of this study was to evaluate the overall performance of a commercial chest-strap HR monitor and perform a calibration procedure. A DAQ-based system was developed to acquire and process raw signals from the sensor. When tested using a highly stable generated ECG signal, the device showed very small measurements errors with low standard deviation, granting high accuracy and good performance that improved even more after calibrating it.
Assessment and Calibration of Wearable Heart Rate Sensors Using a Fully Automated System / Allegretti, Emanuela; Sibilano, Elena; Di Nisio, Attilio; Lanzolla, Anna Maria Lucia; Spadavecchia, Maurizio. - ELETTRONICO. - (2020). (Intervento presentato al convegno 15th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 2020 tenutosi a Bari, Italy nel June 1 - July 1, 2020) [10.1109/MeMeA49120.2020.9137329].
Assessment and Calibration of Wearable Heart Rate Sensors Using a Fully Automated System
Elena Sibilano;Attilio Di Nisio;Anna Maria Lucia Lanzolla;Maurizio Spadavecchia
2020-01-01
Abstract
Heart Rate (HR) monitors have become pervasive tools, with a great impact on fitness as well as on healthcare. The development of smart wearable systems to monitor physiological parameters addresses the need to manage real-time data for both personal and medical needs. Therefore, it is fundamental to assess and improve the reliability of these devices in HR measurement. The objective of this study was to evaluate the overall performance of a commercial chest-strap HR monitor and perform a calibration procedure. A DAQ-based system was developed to acquire and process raw signals from the sensor. When tested using a highly stable generated ECG signal, the device showed very small measurements errors with low standard deviation, granting high accuracy and good performance that improved even more after calibrating it.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
