A Wireless Surface Electromyogram Monitoring System Using Smartphone and Its Application to Maintain Biceps Muscle

Recently, there are few monitoring systems using wireless technology for surface electromyogram (sEMG). Muscle fatigue detection is one of the important applications of sEMG monitoring during exercise in maintaining muscle. In this paper, a wireless sEMG system for monitoring and guiding people to maintain biceps muscle based on muscle fatigue is proposed. The android smartphone can record and send the sEMG signal to the Personal Computer (PC) using wireless technology via Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Furthermore, a Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) will invoke Mat Lab as PC's application. The sEMG signal is computed by Mat Lab to calculate and analyze muscle fatigue then send the result back to android smartphone to be displayed. In addition, the system can help to maintain biceps muscle until exercise complete. Detailed information about the design and implementation result is reported in this paper. The testing and implementation results have proven that the system is correct and feasible.