Seismocardiographybased detection of heartbeats for continuous monitoring of vital signs This paper presents an automated procedure for analyzing SeismoCardioGraphic (SCG) traces, i.e. chest vibrations induced by heart activity. Such signals are acquired by means of an inexpensive, compact accelerometer device, placed over the subjectxe2x80x99s sternum and held in place by a light strap. The methodology for beat detection and annotation features a preliminary coarse beat detection phase, followed by a selfmanaged calibration, that is subsequently leveraged to carry out actual SCG annotation and beat localization. The performance of such process was measured and compared against the ECG gold standard, used only to provide groundtruth beattobeat intervals (i.e. Rpeak landmarks). Results show high average values of sensitivity and precision (99.1% and 97.9%, respectively). The coefficient of determination R2 reaches a 0.984 value, which shows that the algorithm is able to temporally localize SCG complexes in a very consistent way, compared to the ECG gold standard; indeed, the variability between the ECG and SCG beat to beat measures is found to be very limited (xcfx83 diff  xe2x89x88 8.5 ms, i.e. less than one sample interval).

SeisMote: A MultiSensor Wireless Platform for Cardiovascular Monitoring in Laboratory, Daily Life, and Telemedicine This article presents a new wearable platform, SeisMote, for the monitoring of cardiovascular function in controlled conditions and daily life. It consists of a wireless network of sensorized nodes providing simultaneous multiple measures of electrocardiogram (ECG), acceleration, rotational velocity, and photoplethysmogram (PPG) from different body areas. A custom lowpower transmission protocol was developed to allow the concomitant realtime monitoring of 32 signals (16 bit 200 Hz) from up to 12 nodes with a jitter in the amongnode time synchronization lower than 0.2 ms. The BluetoothLE protocol may be used when only a single node is needed. Data can also be collected in the offline mode. Seismocardiogram and pulse transit times can be derived from the collected data to obtain additional information on cardiac mechanics and vascular characteristics. The employment of the system in the field showed recordings without data gaps caused by transmission errors, and the duration of each battery charge exceeded 16 h. The system is currently used to investigate strategies of hemodynamic regulation in different vascular districts (through a multisite assessment of ECG and PPG) and to study the propagation of precordial vibrations along the thorax. The singlenode version is presently exploited to monitor cardiac patients during telerehabilitation.