Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6556: Development of a Portable All-Wavelength PPG Sensing Device for Robust Adaptive-Depth Measurement: A Spectrometer Approach with a Hydrostatic Measurement Example

Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6556: Development of a Portable All-Wavelength PPG Sensing Device for Robust Adaptive-Depth Measurement: A Spectrometer Approach with a Hydrostatic Measurement Example Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20226556 Authors: Shao-Hao Chen Yung-Chi Chuang Cheng-Chun Chang Photoplethysmography (PPG), a noninvasive optical sensing technology, has been widely used to measure various physiological indices. Over-the-counter PPG devices are typically composed of a single-wavelength light source, namely, single-wavelength PPG (SW-PPG). It is known that signals of SW-PPG are easily contaminated or distorted by measurement conditions such as motion artifacts, wearing pressure, and skin type. Since lights of different wavelengths can penetrate skin tissues at different depths, how to effectively construct a multiwavelength PPG (MW-PPG) device or even an all-wavelength PPG (AW-PPG) device has attracted great attention. There is also a very interesting question, that is, what could be the potential benefits of using MW-PPG or AW-PPG devices? This paper demonstrates the construction of an AW-PPG portable device and conducts a preliminary evaluation. The presented device consists of four light-emitting diodes, a chip-scale spectrometer, a microcontroller, a Bluetooth Low Energy transceiver, and a phone app. The maximum ratio combining algorithm (MRC) is used to combine the PPG signals derived from different wavelengths to achieve a better signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). The ...
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