Real-time Heart Rate Abnormality Detection using ECG for Vehicle Safety

Abstract

Driving is an activity in which all the senses have to act together and a small pain may lead to major accidents. Health monitoring system helps people suffering from chronic diseases and who needs periodic and timely medical attention. The number of deaths due to road traffic accidents has been reduced, which shows that the inventions to increase road safety have some impact. The driver's health condition is being monitored by an inbuilt nonintrusive measurement system which assures the safety precautions in a person's life. The most common problem found in real life is cardiac arrest due to various reasons like high blood pressure, high sugar level etc. Heart functioning can be monitored by extracting the ECG signal and detection is done with the Arduino UNO. When an abnormality in the acquired signal is detected, an indication is provided and then the car is stopped through CAN Trans receiver, providing a swift response. The proposed model fallouts as a low-cost solution for improving the road and vehicle safety.