A Wearable Combined Wrist Pulse Measurement System Using Airbags for Pressurization
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. System Architecture and Validation
2.1. Signal Acquisition and Processing
2.2. Principle and Calibration of Pressurization
2.3. Position Adjusting
2.4. Validation of the System
3. Results
3.1. Single-Region Measurement Experiment
3.2. Three-Region Measurement Experiment
4. Discussions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Subject No. | Heart Rate (bpm) | Error (%) | BMI | Best Pulse-Taking Pressure (gf) | |||
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YX-303 | Proposed System | Cun | Guan | Chi | |||
1 | 96 | 97 | 1.04 | 14.2 | 51.84 | 49.11 | 70.87 |
2 | 93 | 93 | 0 | 16.9 | 57.37 | 58.37 | 66.54 |
3 | 70 | 71 | 1.43 | 18.3 | 65.71 | 68.34 | 70.82 |
4 | 70 | 71 | 1.43 | 19.1 | 68.30 | 67.07 | 73.03 |
5 | 87 | 88 | 1.15 | 19.6 | 72.03 | 69.12 | 75.24 |
6 | 94 | 94 | 0 | 20.7 | 79.65 | 77.01 | 86.88 |
7 | 88 | 89 | 1.14 | 21.9 | 90.75 | 78.91 | 83.07 |
8 | 80 | 79 | 1.25 | 22.3 | 89.57 | 80.03 | 98.94 |
9 | 73 | 74 | 1.37 | 22.8 | 92.56 | 94.31 | 104.03 |
10 | 73 | 73 | 0 | 23.7 | 105.58 | 105.55 | 105.47 |
11 | 80 | 80 | 0 | 24.7 | 102.56 | 113.70 | 117.42 |
12 | 80 | 79 | 1.25 | 25.0 | 108.76 | 110.31 | 114.49 |
Subject No. | Pulse Rate | Best Pulse-Taking Pressure | ||||
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Average (bpm) | SD (bpm) | RE (%) | Average (gf) | SD (gf) | RE (%) | |
13 | 84 | 0.6 | 0.73 | 100.72 | 1.83 | 1.81 |
14 | 79 | 1.2 | 1.53 | 95.69 | 2.34 | 2.45 |
15 | 70 | 1.2 | 1.72 | 102.17 | 2.23 | 2.18 |
System | Peng Wang [14] | Zhou [12] | Jessica [22] | Proposed |
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Wearable wristbands | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Combined and detachable | No | No | No | Yes |
Position adjustable | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Pressurization method | Motor and shaft | Motor and shaft | Manually | Pump and air bag |
Number of sensors | Sensor array | Three | Three | Three |
Sampling frequency | Above 50 Hz | 1000 Hz | 11 Hz | 1000 Hz |
Continuous decompression measurement | No | No | No | Yes |
Pulse-taking pressure acquiring | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Year of publication | 2012 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Jin, C.; Xia, C.; Zhang, S.; Wang, L.; Wang, Y.; Yan, H. A Wearable Combined Wrist Pulse Measurement System Using Airbags for Pressurization. Sensors 2019, 19, 386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19020386
Jin C, Xia C, Zhang S, Wang L, Wang Y, Yan H. A Wearable Combined Wrist Pulse Measurement System Using Airbags for Pressurization. Sensors. 2019; 19(2):386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19020386
Chicago/Turabian StyleJin, Chenling, Chunming Xia, Shiyu Zhang, Liren Wang, Yiqin Wang, and Haixia Yan. 2019. "A Wearable Combined Wrist Pulse Measurement System Using Airbags for Pressurization" Sensors 19, no. 2: 386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19020386
APA StyleJin, C., Xia, C., Zhang, S., Wang, L., Wang, Y., & Yan, H. (2019). A Wearable Combined Wrist Pulse Measurement System Using Airbags for Pressurization. Sensors, 19(2), 386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19020386