A MULTICHANNEL PERSONAL TELEMETRY SYSTEM USING PULSE POSITION MODULATION

Abstract

A personal t le e ry system using the pulse position modulation technique was developed. The laboratory model transmi s heart rate, respiration rate, and body te per ure wit i a range of 100 feet. Compared with FM - FM Systems this system has the adv n age of very low power consumption (20 milliwatts), light weight (6 ounces with batteries for 80 hours continuous operation), small size (4-3/4 by 3-1/2 by 1 inc es), and sufficient accuracy and stability (2 percent baseline stability) for physiological measurements. An inexpensive, small, singletrack tape recorder may be used for recording; and an extremely simple and inexpensive playback system can be used for scope display. Although more complex equipment is required for the playb ck y tem to standard penwriters, this penwriter decoding unit is not any more complicated than standard FM discriminators. Simple, reliable, switching-type circuits which work over a wide temperature range are used, and there is no proble with cross alk be een channels. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0266338

Entities

People

  • Adolf R. Marko
  • Edward G. Correll
  • Miles A. Mclennan

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Decoding
  • Energy Consumption
  • Heart Rate
  • Measurement
  • Modulation
  • Pulse Position Modulation
  • Recording Systems
  • Standards
  • Tape Recorders
  • Telemetry

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