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Heart rate is a very vital health parameter that is directly related to the soundness of the human cardiovascular system. This project describes a technique of measuring the heart rate through a fingertip using a PIC microcontroller. While the heart is beating, it is actually pumping blood throughout the body, and that makes the blood volume inside the finger artery to change too. This fluctuation of blood can be detected through an optical sensing mechanism placed around the fingertip. The signal can be amplified further for the microcontroller to count the rate of fluctuation, which is actually the heart rate.
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Signing UpStep 1Sensor assembly
The sensor unit consists of an infrared light-emitting-diode (IR LED) and a photo diode, placed side by side, and the fingertip is placed over the sensor assembly, as shown below. The IR LED transmits an infrared light into the fingertip, a part of which is reflected back from the blood inside the finger arteries. The photo diode senses the portion of the light that is reflected back. The intensity of reflected light depends upon the blood volume inside the fingertip. So, every time the heart beats the amount of reflected infrared light changes, which can be detected by the photo diode. With a high gain amplifier, this little alteration in the amplitude of the reflected light can be converted into a pulse.
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and can i have the coding for this project or send me a more detailed information for this project?i want make one for my college mini project.
sent it to my email address please thanks sir~
alpha_6188@hotmail.com
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I have been going directly into a micro-controller and doing the noise filtering there, however an opamp would be a nice way to increase the snr to the i think 8 bit DAC on an msp430.
here is what i am building for my 1yr old niece who is prone to asthma attacks.
http://www.oximetry.org/pulseox/principles.htm
this will also measure pulse but more interesting, in my opinion, is that it attempts to measure deoxy/oxy-hemoglobin via point spectroscopy and isosbestic point analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isosbestic_point), using an infrared and red led alternatively pulsed and measured. the goal is to make it a low oxy-Hb alarm system (no visual output), that is small and preferably comfortable enough so that she doesnt try to pull it off.
I will post the build information when i am finished with this project.
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Jules
I liked also that he didn't manufacture a PCB, a protoboard is good enoght and makes it cooler and easier for peoples to begin with electronics. It may be baffling to somebody who "only" see readymade PCB's. Not me! :D
Now do we need to find out how to make the device to detect the difference between the first and middle finger....
Thanks
give a code in C
#include // plz ad the string . h file
//heart beat monitor 8051 based
#define lcdport P2 // chnage it for ur hardware
sbit rw = P3^7; // LCD connection may be different
sbit rs=P3^6; // LCD interface with microcontroller
sbit en=P3^5; // Enable pin of LCD
unsigned char sec,sec100;
unsigned int bt,tick,r,bpm;
void lcdinit();
void lcdcmd(unsigned char);
void lcddata(unsigned char);
void send_string(unsigned char *s);
void msdelay(unsigned int);
void extrint (void) interrupt 0 // external Interrupt to detect the heart pulse
{
bt=tick; // number of ticks are picked
tick=0; // reset for next counting
}
void timer0 (void) interrupt 1 using 1 // Timer 0 for one second time
{
TH0 = 0xdc; //The value is taken for Ssc/100 at crystal 11.0592MHz
sec100++; // It is incremented every Ssc/100 at crystal 11.0592MHz
tick++; // This variable counts the time period of incoming pulse in Sec/100
if(tick>=3500){tick=0;} // tick are limited to less trhan 255 for valid calculation
if(sec100 >=100) // 1 sec = sec100 * 100
{
sec++;
sec100=0;
}
}
void main()
{
P0=0xff;
P1=0xff;
P2=0xff;
P3=0xff;
rw=0;
EA = 1;
TMOD = 0x21;
IT0 = 1;
EX0 = 1;
ET0 = 1;
TR0 = 1;
msdelay(1000);
lcdinit();
msdelay(1000);
send_string("Heart beat ");
msdelay(1500);
msdelay(500);
//delay(15000);
bpm=0;bt=0;
while(1)
{
if(sec >=1)
{
sec=0;
/*
The sampling time is fixed 1 sec.
A variable "tick" is incremented with one tick per 100mSc in the timer 0 interrupt routine.
Each on occurring of external interrupt the value in the "tick" is picked up
and it is set to zero for recounting.
The process continues till next external interrupt.
Formula for calculating beats per minutes (microcontroller based heartbeat monitor ) is
as tick is the time period in Sec/100. so extract the frequency of pulses at external interrupt
Frequency = (1/tick)* 100 i.e pulses /sec
Then
bpm = frequency * 60 for one minutes i.e pulses per minute
in short we can do it as
bpm = 6000/ bt
*/
lcdcmd(0x02);
if(bt >=7){
bpm = 6000/bt; // for valid output bt is limited so that it should be greater than 6
msdelay(500);
send_string("Pulse. ");
lcddata((bpm/100)+0x30);
r=bpm%100;
lcddata((r/10)+0x30);
lcddata((r%10)+0x30);
send_string(" bpm ");
}
else {
send_string("out of range");} // otherwise bpm will be shown zero, if limit does not fit for your project you can change it.
}
}
}
void lcdinit()
{
msdelay(100);
lcdcmd(0x01);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x38);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x38);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x38);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x06);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x0c);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x03);
msdelay(500);
msdelay(500);
}
void lcdcmd(unsigned char value)
{
rs=0;
lcdport=value;
msdelay(100);
en=1;
msdelay(100);
en=0;
msdelay(100);
rs=1;
}
void lcddata(unsigned char value)
//heart beat monitoring system using microcontroller
{
rs=1;
lcdport=value;
msdelay(10);
en=1;
msdelay(100);
en=0;
rs=0;
}
void msdelay(unsigned int i)
{
//unsigned int i;
while(i --);
}
void send_string(unsigned char *s)
{
unsigned char l,i;
l = strlen(s); // get the length of string
for(i=1;i <=l;i++)
{
lcddata(*s); // write every char one by one
s++;
}
}
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Sir please reply sooon..
i can not find the IC MCP-602 in the stores and all of my hardwork is at risk. i tried and searched too many shops for it , but i can't find any suitable alternative for the IC MCP-602. can u guide me please sir.
hatif_ijaz@hotmail.com
this project is fine... wil u pls send a components list for my mail id????
renuga.srinu@yahoo.com. pls sir