Wireless Electroencephalography Based Blood Pressure Monitoring

R A Jafri,M W Munir,M Z Ul Haque,M F Shamim,M A Alam,N Shahid

doi:10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.27605

Abstract

The number of cardiac patients and aged individuals are at a rise all around the world. Taking care of such individuals is a major challenge these days. In many cases, these patients require special care and regular monitoring of vital signs like blood pressure (BP). Focusing a prevalent idea of wireless brain-computer interface (WBCI), an innovative research work is considered to meet essential routine monitoring of BP for cardiac patients and aged people without any reliance. The research framework involves the use of wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) headset to control wrist BP and arm BP monitors to determine accurate BP readings in the proposed system. An Android application "Smart Home Monitor" is developed that screens the information from the headset. The research framework is tested on ten individuals to examine the precision in BP readings from two different BP monitors. Results specify that both upper arm blood pressure readings i.e. Systolic BP readings (SBP = 119.6 ±5.1 mmHg) and Diastolic BP (DBP = 79.5 ±7.4 mmHg) were found to be better than the wrist BP readings (SBP = 128.2 ±11.7 mmHg and DBP = 83.6 ±10.3 mmHg). This examination assessed that the designed system empowers the framework to be reliable, remote and compact.

Highlights

Systems based on wireless brain-computer interface (WBCI) are prevailing and becoming dominant because of easy accessibility and compactness as the mind is wirelessly interfaced to the gadget to control WBCI framework remotely [1]
The mobile controller processes these signals from the headset, control both Blood pressure (BP) monitors and wirelessly transmit data to a smartphone
Once BP values were attained from the monitoring devices, an analysis was performed to check the accuracy of our system by examining the difference between the BP values of the wrist and upper arm

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Introduction

Systems based on wireless brain-computer interface (WBCI) are prevailing and becoming dominant because of easy accessibility and compactness as the mind is wirelessly interfaced to the gadget to control WBCI framework remotely [1]. One of them is the smart medical home system [2] This allows the user to measure one of their vital signs, for instance, monitoring of blood pressure several times a day without any dependency at home. BP essentially alludes to the way blood pushes against the dividing wall of the arteries as the heart pumps. Two analyses compared the automatic wrist BP readings with conventional auscultatory BP readings of upper arm [7, 8]. It was found that the automated wrist estimation was precise and exact [7, 8]. BP readings of a wrist and upper arm were compared with eighty-five (85) subjects and it was concluded that there is a significant difference found among two readings [9]

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