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In this paper, five different types of conductive polymeric materials are used as electrodes, and tested to find the best candidate to be implemented in a mobile off-the-person electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring device. To assess their performance, each material was compared to a clinical grade ECG system using three signal similarity metrics, namely the cosine distance, correlation coefficient, and root mean square error. Within the tested materials, results show that two of them, PolyOne’s OnForce and Vectra’s 840i LDS LCP, offer similar performance when compared to stainless steel electrodes (a material widely used as a dry electrode), with the heartbeat waveform from each material showing high similarity to their respective reference.
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This work was supported by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) grant I&D 2015–2020 “iNOVA4Health—Programme in Translacional Medicine” (UID/Multi/04462/2013), and by the P2020 grant Senior Inclusive (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-017967), promoted by HidePixel.
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Osório, D.N. et al. (2020). Comparison of Different Polymeric Materials for Mobile Off-the-Person ECG. In: Inácio, P., Duarte, A., Fazendeiro, P., Pombo, N. (eds) 5th EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare. HealthyIoT 2018. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30335-8_2
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