Wearable mobile ear-based ECG monitoring device using graphene-coated sensors

This work proposes the design and evaluation of a wearable mobile ear-based electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system using highly electrically conductive material — graphene — enabled electrodes. Prolonged physiological monitoring is important in diagnosis, monitoring chronic diseases, and improving training regimes. Current technologies for monitoring ECGs alone are acceptable to clinicians or professionals, but alien to users. Uncomfortable and unfamiliar technologies are not efficient for obtaining ambulatory data they are designed for. Smartphones and headphones are increasingly ubiquitous across generations. Here, a novel design is aimed to progress the development of an ear-based, graphene sensors with mobile connectivity producing high quality, prolonged, real-time ECG measurements in a system more familiar to the end user.