An ubiquitous miniaturized android based ECG monitoring system

Abstract

Miniaturization of devices has brought a lot of improvements in the healthcare delivery as a result of advancenments in Integrated circuit technologies. As a result, proper and effective way of analyzing various body conditions and diseases can be achieved. When the heart muscles repolarize and depolarize, it generates electrical impulses which could help the doctor or the health professional to diagnose various heart abnormalities. The aim of this project is to design and develop a miniaturized ECG system displayed on both PC and Tablet for preliminary diagnoses of the heart. This system utilizes a programmable single-chip microcontroller for analysing the biosignals to indicate the condition of the heart. The system is incomporated with alarm systems which prompt the doctor if there is any abnormality from a patient's heart. These abnormalities could be bradycardia or tachycardia. This system is built with a provision of enabling wireless transmission of ECG signals to a PC or TABLET through BLUETOOTH and ANDROID PLATFORM. The android application can be installed and tested on any smart phone or tablet and screen resolution can be adjusted later as per requirement. This helps the doctor to have visual description of the patient ECG without the need of mounted monitors. The experimental results show that device is clinically useful, compact, cost effective and user friendly.