Necklace-Styled Cardiac Monitoring System - - Prototype Unveiled By IMEC

Deaths resulting out of heart attacks have taken a toll over years. While exercising and eating habits have been contributing just perfectly for the cause, our fast paced live gives no time for doctor visits. Wearable and portable devices have thrown open a new dimension of self-heath care and in endeavor to further stretch the same, IMEC has unveiled a prototype of it necklace-styled cardiac monitoring system.

Targeted for long term ambulatory findings in order to obtain a clearer and accurate data of a patient’s cardiac electrophysiological health, the ECG necklace is aptly designed to last for a good seven odd days before requiring a charge.

The embedded heat beat detecting sensors are perfect in picking the heart rate, even under high level of noise, so it makes no difference if you are playing with the device around your neck or you’re in some rock fest, unless you breathe out it is there to keep the detection going. An ultra-low power microcontroller unit within the necklace device however unit controls the wireless transmission of the ECG data to a computer within a range of 10m, while an optional memory module can be enabled to get data transfers to computer far off.