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Patient Heart Beat Monitoring System Using PIC Microcontroller

B. Divya, V. Divya, K. Hari Priya, P. Jeevitha, J. Dhanasekar

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This paper describes the development of a heart rate monitor system based on a microcontroller. It offers the advantage of portability over tape-based recording systems. The paper explains how a single- chip microcontroller can be used to analyze heart beat rate signals in real-time. In addition, it allows doctors to get the heart beat rate file of the patient by e-mail every twenty four hours. It can also be used to control patients or athletic person over a long period. The system reads, stores and analyses the heart beat rate signals repetitively in real-time. The hardware and software design are oriented towards a single-chip microcontroller-based system, hence minimizing the size. The important feature of this paper is the use of zero crossing algorithms to compute heart rate. It then processes on real-time the information to determine some heart diseases.


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Microsystems, Microcontroller, Real-Time, Heart Rate Monitoring, Zero Crossing Algorithm.

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