LTMS

Description: Long term medical monitoring system, biomedical chest vest
PI: Dr. Marc Correvon
Organization: Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, CH

Summary

CSEM developed a system for ESA for the continuous recording of a large set of physiological data. This “SENSE”-hardware and is able to monitor:

• high-quality ECG with dry electrodes, online heart rate
• respiration by impedance plethysmographic (breath rate),
• 3D acceleration and activity (lying, standing, walking, running),
• skin and ambient temperatures.

The SENSE system is highly integrated and includes two stand-alone electrode sensors clipped in a fitting single-layer vest.
The system is cableless and able to stream data in real- time to a platform embedding Bluetooth (Smartphone or tablet PC). This platform, based on Android OS, can display data.

Objectives

Functional demonstration under field conditions:
The multi-signal vital-sign monitoring vest (SENSE) will be used on the subject wearing the spacesuit simulator, the signals will be streamed in real-time by means of a Tablet PC/Smartphone based on Android OS which will at the same time relay the signals via wifi to a gateway connected to the internet.
Then, the signals will transit via a server to which several clients (PC terminal) can be simultaneously connected, e.g., one at the MSC, one at OPS, and one at CSEM/Neuchâtel. Each terminal will run dedicated software that will display in realtime the physiological signals.

Experiment Data