Wireless remote monitoring system for patients with cardiac pacemakers

This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless remote monitoring system for patients with temporary cardiac pacemakers. The system is built around a low power cardiac pacemaker with wireless data transmission capability, used for patient monitoring in to a limited area. The proposed system is designed to be used in emergency situations, in healthcare institutes, helping to keep the patient's heartbeat stable. The status of each heartbeat is wirelessly transmitted to a monitoring station via a wireless sensor network. The monitoring station runs a patient monitor application that receives the data from wireless sensor network and activates the alarms when these values exceed the preset limits. An experimental wireless pacemaker was implemented and tested.