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Article

Stand-Alone Wearable System for Ubiquitous Real-Time Monitoring of Muscle Activation Potentials

by
Ivan Mazzetta
1,
Paolo Gentile
1,2,
Marco Pessione
3,
Antonio Suppa
4,5,
Alessandro Zampogna
4,
Edoardo Bianchini
4 and
Fernanda Irrera
1,*
1
Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications DIET, “Sapienza” University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
2
ABB Italy Electrification Products, Via Pescaria 5, 24123 Bergamo, Italy
3
STMicroelectronics, Via Olivetti 2, 20864 Agrate Brianza MI, Italy
4
Department of Human Neuroscience, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 00185 Rome, Italy
5
IRCSS-NEUROMED, via Atinense 18, 86077 Pozzilli, IS, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2018, 18(6), 1748; https://doi.org/10.3390/s18061748
Submission received: 7 March 2018 / Revised: 25 May 2018 / Accepted: 26 May 2018 / Published: 29 May 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensing System for Real-Time Monitoring)
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Abstract

Wearable technology is attracting most attention in healthcare for the acquisition of physiological signals. We propose a stand-alone wearable surface ElectroMyoGraphy (sEMG) system for monitoring the muscle activity in real time. With respect to other wearable sEMG devices, the proposed system includes circuits for detecting the muscle activation potentials and it embeds the complete real-time data processing, without using any external device. The system is optimized with respect to power consumption, with a measured battery life that allows for monitoring the activity during the day. Thanks to its compactness and energy autonomy, it can be used outdoor and it provides a pathway to valuable diagnostic data sets for patients during their own day-life. Our system has performances that are comparable to state-of-art wired equipment in the detection of muscle contractions with the advantage of being wearable, compact, and ubiquitous.
Keywords: wearable device; stand-alone processing; surface electromyography; embedded system; long-time monitoring wearable device; stand-alone processing; surface electromyography; embedded system; long-time monitoring

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Mazzetta, I.; Gentile, P.; Pessione, M.; Suppa, A.; Zampogna, A.; Bianchini, E.; Irrera, F. Stand-Alone Wearable System for Ubiquitous Real-Time Monitoring of Muscle Activation Potentials. Sensors 2018, 18, 1748. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18061748

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Mazzetta I, Gentile P, Pessione M, Suppa A, Zampogna A, Bianchini E, Irrera F. Stand-Alone Wearable System for Ubiquitous Real-Time Monitoring of Muscle Activation Potentials. Sensors. 2018; 18(6):1748. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18061748

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Mazzetta, Ivan, Paolo Gentile, Marco Pessione, Antonio Suppa, Alessandro Zampogna, Edoardo Bianchini, and Fernanda Irrera. 2018. "Stand-Alone Wearable System for Ubiquitous Real-Time Monitoring of Muscle Activation Potentials" Sensors 18, no. 6: 1748. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18061748

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Mazzetta, I., Gentile, P., Pessione, M., Suppa, A., Zampogna, A., Bianchini, E., & Irrera, F. (2018). Stand-Alone Wearable System for Ubiquitous Real-Time Monitoring of Muscle Activation Potentials. Sensors, 18(6), 1748. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18061748

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