Microcontroller based heart rate monitor

Abstract EN

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 analyse heart beat rate signals in real-time.

In addition, it allows doctors to get the heart beat rate file of the patient by email 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 algorithm to compute heart rate.

It then processes on real-time the information to determine some heart diseases.