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After a heart attack, patients are required to receive immediate medical attention, which, otherwise, may turn fatal. These complications can be avoided if any inconsistency in cardiac activity is detected and treated in an early stage that calls for outpatient ambulatory monitoring of ECG. Some rare, serious arrhythmias e. Brugada Syndrome, Arrhythmogenic Right ventricular Cardiomyopathy, Long QT syndrome, hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy are infrequent and only detected on prolonged monitoring. Figure 2a shows one cycle of a typical ECG signal. In a conventional 1. ECG system, electrical activities of the heart along 1. Ag Ag. Cl electrodes hydrogel methodwet ECG, which are affixed to some specific parts of the body. Figure 2b shows the placement of the electrodes in a standard of 1. ECG system. The electrodes contain conducting gel in the middle of the pad that functions as a conduction medium between the skin and the electrode. This conducting gel has potential toxic and irritant effects on the skin and is thus not best suitable to use for longterm ambulatory monitoring system though currently, it is the only system available 1. However, only a few numbers of electrodes are used in ambulatory ECG monitoring system at the cost of limited information Figure 2c. A continuous ambulatory monitoring device requires a wearable and portable system that could be used comfortably without affecting an individuals daily activities. Andreoni et al. 2. T shirt and textile belts with embedded textile electrodes for monitoring ECG, HR, and R R interval. The electrodes were made from silver based conductive yarns. Instead of using any conductive gel, the electrodes relied on body sweat, an electrolyte medium, to improve the conductivity of the skin electrode interface and signal quality. The device also included a Sp. O2 sensor and a three axis accelerometer for fall detection, and it could transmit the data over low power Bluetooth 4. An elastic fabric made ECG vest was presented in 2. The electrodes were fabricated from NiCu coated compressed urethane polymer foam that was enclosed by an Au coated conductive taffeta fabric. The ECG measured by the proposed system exhibited high correlation with the simulated signal, although measurements on real subjects were not shown. Due to the conductive and flexible nature of the substrate, the skin electrode impedance was low and remained stable over a longer period of time, thus reducing the electrode motion noise. Jeong et al. 3. 0 proposed an ECG monitoring system where they used similar technology as 2. In addition to that, they used a very high bias resistor at the input of the pre amplifier, which assisted further in reducing electrode motion artifacts. A noise cancellation and peak detection algorithm was performed on the raw ECG data to find out the QRS complex, and HR, although a detailed description of the algorithm was not provided. The authors reported achieving high sensitivity and high accuracy in detecting QRS complexes. The electrodes used in the ECG systems presented in 2. Nemati et al. 1. ECG monitoring system in a stretchable belt where three capacitive electrodes were integrated into a cotton T shirt, thus enabling ECG measurements to be performed over the cloth. The cotton functioned as the dielectric material between the electrode and the skin. The signal processing and communication modules were mounted on a small two layer PCB board. Power consumption was minimized by selecting low power electronic components for the system, ANT protocol for wireless communication as well as by adopting idle mode signal sampling technique. However, the rigid electrodes can be inconvenient to the users and may induce motion artifacts in the signal. In order to minimize the common mode interference, an additional driven right leg DRL electrode was used in 1. This DRL electrode is usually placed at a distant site, far from the measurement electrodes and thus requires a long wired connection, which may not be convenient for wearable and long term monitoring systems. Komensky et al. 3. ECG monitoring system without the DRL circuit, where only two active capacitive sensors were embedded in an elastic chest band. In order to increase and stabilize the input impedance, two anti parallel connected diodes were used for biasing that has advantages over resistors 3. The ECG measurements on stable subjects were reasonably well, although the P waves were indistinguishable, which might be attributed to the electrodes position on the body or the absence of the common electrode. On the other hand, the measurements during walking were greatly affected by the motion artifacts, but the QRS complexes were still recognizable. Many researchers have developed and made use of piezoelectric pressure sensors for measuring the HR by sensing the arterial pulse wave generated by the periodic contraction and relaxation of the heart. A wireless HR monitoring device was presented in 3. HR from the pressure variation in the ears canal surface. A piezoelectric film pressure was used to sense the in ear pulse waves EPW and convert it to an electric current. A knowledge based algorithm was implemented in a microcontroller that could detect the pulse peak in real time from the signal after performing a morphological conversion. However, the pressure variance, and thereby the peak height of the pressure waves can be affected by body movements that introduce error in HR estimation. In addition, an ear mounted device is inconvenient for long term use. A similar system was proposed in 3. They used carbon blacksilicone rubber nanocomposite as the flexible piezoresistive material. High sensitivity and linearity of the pressure sensor was achieved by forming microstructures at the contact surface of two piezoresistive layers. They also proposed a low cost analog signal processing ASP system that could perform denoising, data processing, and HR measurement. Yoon et al. 3. 4 designed a skin attachable piezoelectric pressure sensor and demonstrated its usability in HR estimation by sensing the pulse wave in human artery. The pressure sensor was fabricated on a polyimide substrate with a small window. A thermally evaporated silver electrode was spin coated with a polyvinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene PVDF Tr. FE piezoelectric layer. The pressure variation in the radial artery causes mechanical stress on the piezoelectric layer, resulting in potential variation across the electrodes. Tajitsu et al. 3. HR monitoring. The piezoresistive material was made from nonwoven acrylate modified polytetrafluoroethylene PTFE fabric that was fabricated using electro spinning. The PTFE was deposited on an aluminum electrode on a polyethyleneterephthalate PET film.