Mobile ECG scanner using smartphone

Abstract EN

ECG (electrocardiogram) is a test to measure the electrical activity of the heart by applying electrical impulses.

The information obtained from an ECG can be analyzed to discover different types of heart diseases.

It is useful to monitor a patient’s respond to a specific treatment.

Some patients may need to move around while still being monitored by an ECG.

Hence, it is important to have a mobile ECG solution.

Building a stable and reliable mobile ECG solution needs huge investment especially if all main components are built from scratch.

This research proposes to build the mobile ECG solution using available main components from the shelf.

Bluetooth is used instead of USB in order to provide future flexibility to add more electrodes.

In order to reduce the size, development cost, and time, Smartphone is used as the host PC.

Present Smartphone have sufficient resources to provide the necessary data logging, HMI and remote monitoring.