An embedded system for determining arrhythmia

Abstract

With increasing use of technology to aid human health care has opened up lot many challenges and opportunities in the field of telecommunication engineering. In this paper an effort is made for the development and implementation of wireless body area networks on an embedded platform. Wearable sensors placed at different organs of the body and signals are captured and transmitted using WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network). A microcontroller is used to coordinate the process. The parameters considered here are the heartbeat and the temperature level of the body. The microcontroller monitors the values of these two parameters using sensors interfaced to it for all possible cases of arrhythmia (slow, fast and irregular heart beat). On exceeding the threshold values in case of slow or fast heart beat the GSM modem interfaced to it is triggered, to send warning or alert messages to the doctor. And simultaneously monitoring the temperature levels of the patient will help us in monitoring the irregular heart beat.