A 180 nm-CMOS Asymmetric UWB-RFID Tag with Real-time Remote-monitored ECG-sensing

Jue Shen, Jia Mao, Geng Yang, Li Xie, Yi Feng, Majid Nejad, Zhuo Zou, Hannu Tenhunen, Li-Rong Zheng

2015

Abstract

This paper proposes an asymmetric ultra-wideband - radio frequency identification (UWB-RFID) tag with electrocardiogram (ECG)-sensing capability for patients remote-monitoring in hospital environment. A UWB-RFID communication protocol is suggested for real-time transmission of undistorted ECG by interleaving ADC sampling and burst-mode UWB transmission. The proposed system shows a maximum accessing capability of 400 tags/second at 1.5 KHz ECG sampling rate with 10 Mbps UWB pulse rate. The tag consists of UHF-RFID receiver, UWB transmitter, ECG analog front-end, multi-input ADC and baseband circuitry integrated on two silicon dies. It was implemented by 6 mm2 -sized 180 nm CMOS technology. Electrodes for ECG-sensing are manufactured by inkjet-printing on polyimide substrate. Experiment results show that the tag transmits UWB pulses at 1 Mbps rate with 18 µW power. The printed electrodes conduct ECG waveform comparable to commercial electrodes.

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Shen J., Mao J., Yang G., Xie L., Feng Y., Nejad M., Zou Z., Tenhunen H. and Zheng L. (2015). A 180 nm-CMOS Asymmetric UWB-RFID Tag with Real-time Remote-monitored ECG-sensing . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-071-0, pages 210-215. DOI: 10.5220/0005286302100215


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices15,
author={Jue Shen and Jia Mao and Geng Yang and Li Xie and Yi Feng and Majid Nejad and Zhuo Zou and Hannu Tenhunen and Li-Rong Zheng},
title={A 180 nm-CMOS Asymmetric UWB-RFID Tag with Real-time Remote-monitored ECG-sensing },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={210-215},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005286302100215},
isbn={978-989-758-071-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2015)
TI - A 180 nm-CMOS Asymmetric UWB-RFID Tag with Real-time Remote-monitored ECG-sensing
SN - 978-989-758-071-0
AU - Shen J.
AU - Mao J.
AU - Yang G.
AU - Xie L.
AU - Feng Y.
AU - Nejad M.
AU - Zou Z.
AU - Tenhunen H.
AU - Zheng L.
PY - 2015
SP - 210
EP - 215
DO - 10.5220/0005286302100215