Highly Integrated Ultra-Low-Power SoC Solution for Unobtrusive and Energy-Efficient Wireless Cardiac Monitoring (ICY HEART)

Project Overview

The objective of IcyHeart is to investigate and demonstrate a highly integrated and power-efficient microelectronic solution for remote monitoring of a person’s electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. A complete System-on-a-Chip (SoC) will be developed and will embark on a single chip an ultra low-power signal acquisition front-end with analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) for ECG, a low-power digital signal processor (DSP), and a low-energy radio frequency (RF) transceiver. Energy efficient signal processing algorithms targeting ECG and similar signals will be embedded and run on the on-chip DSP.

The proposed research will enable major technological breakthroughs in the areas of highly integrated “sensing-converting-processing-transmitting” solutions in a single chip. The IcyHeart technology will generate high market value for the European SMEs developing novel cardio-monitoring products in home and professional environments, and create high societal impact for several categories of European citizens requiring miniature, comfortable and easy-to-use wireless tele-healthcare solutions.

Partners Involved

• RTD Talos Limited (Cyprus)
• DOLPHIN Itegration (France)
• SignalGeneriX Ltd (Cyprus)
• Centre Suisse d’ Electronique et Microtechnique SA, CSEM (Switzerland)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
• Prisma Electronics (Greece)
• DOCOBO (UK)

For more information you can visit the project’s dedicated website: http://www.icyheart-project.eu/

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 286130.