Nobody can disagree that the Remote Patient Monitoring can save lives, reduce costs and allow people to stay at home being remotely overseen.
This talk introduces an innovative work based on an electrocardiogram remote monitoring performed with the integration of other useful physiological parameters. The system records all the necessary physiological values, including the patient voice comments, and transfers the data to a remote server through a common cellular phone. The data can be easily analyzed by the specialists.
The monitoring device has the size of a common plaster attached at the chest. Some of the key ingredients of the device are the certified ECG algorithm, the data integration, the miniaturized sizes and the ultra low power dissipation. The last two features have been introduced through the design of a new system-on-chip composed by an ultra low power 32bit microcontroller (ReISC), an innovative system architecture and the most advanced low power techniques applied to the chip design.
Elio Guidetti received the degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1989. Since October 1999, he has been with the STMicroelectronics, where he is currently director of ultra low power platforms in the Advanced System Technology Division. Since 2000 he has been responsible of the microarchitecture and design of the ST200 VLIW microprocessor in Boston (MA) jointly developed with Hewlett-Packard laboratory. He is currently involved in the design of ultra low power CPU, DSP and system architectures for wireless sensors and biomedical devices. Moreover he is actively cooperating with the Chinese Academy of Science in the design of high-end CPU for low cost PC markets. Before 1999 he was responsible of a telecom R&D group by Marconi Communications in Genova.