A Personalized Beat-to-Beat Heart Rate Detection System from Ballistocardiogram for Smart Home Applications.

This paper presents a ballistocardiogram (BCG) based beat-to-beat heart rate (HR) measurement system for healthcare applications in smart home. The BCG signal is picked up by two parallel connected piezoelectric elements, and processed by a robust HR detection algorithm. To deal with the diversity in BCG signal, a personalized heartbeat template is extracted to handle the diversity in BCG signal. ...