Electromyography Data Transmission via Galvanic Coupling Intra-body
Communication Link
Abstract
Energy efficient galvanic coupling (GC) technology is used in this work
to send electromyography (EMG) data through intra-body communication
links.
Real EMG data are first acquired and recorded with needle electrodes
inserted in the muscle of a person’s forearm. Then, the data are
transferred via GC communication employing a GC sound card-based
testbed. The experiments are conducted by transferring EMG data in both
ex-vivo and in-vivo tissue with different electrodes placements. Almost
error free performance is achieved with a robust and reliable
communication, a valuable result in medical applications.