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ArduinoBasedHeartRateMonitorProject

ArduinoBasedHeartRateMonitorProject

HeartbeatMonitorProjectusingArduino

Heartrate,bodytemperatureandbloodpressuremonitoringareveryimportantparametersofhuman
body.Doctorsusevariouskindofmedicalapparatuslikethermometerforcheckingfeverorbody
temperature,BPmonitorforbloodpressuremeasurementandheartratemonitorforheartrate
measurement.Inthisproject,wehavebuiltanArduinobasedheartbeatmonitorwhichcountsthe
numberofheartbeatsinaminute.Herewehaveusedaheartbeatsensormodulewhichsensesthe
heartbeatuponputtingafingeronthesensor.

WorkingofHeartbeatMonitorProject
Workingofthisprojectisquiteeasybutalittlecalculationforcalculatingheartrateisrequired.Thereare
severalmethodsforcalculatingheartrate,butherewehavereadonlyfivepulses.Thenwehave
calculatedtotalheartbeatinaminutebyapplyingthebelowformula:
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Five_pusle_time=time2time1
Single_pulse_time=Five_pusle_time/5
rate=60000/Single_pulse_time
wheretime1isfirstpulsecountervalue
time2islistpulsecountervalue
rateisfinalheartrate.
Whenfirstpulsecomes,westartcounterbyusingtimercounterfunctioninarduinothatismillis().And
takefirstpulsecountervalueformmillis().Thenwewaitforfivepulses.Aftergettingfivepulseswe
againtakecountervalueintime2andthenwesubstarcttime1fromtime2totakeoriginaltimetakenby
fivepulses.Andthendividethistimeby5timesforgettingsinglepulsetime.Nowwehavetimefor
singlepulseandwecaneasilyfindthepulseinoneminute,deviding600000msbysinglepulsetime.
Rate=600000/singlepulsetime.

InthisprojectwehaveusedHeartbeatsensormoduletodetectHeartBeat.Thissensormodule
containsanIRpairwhichactuallydetectheartbeatfromblood.Heartpumpsthebloodinbodywhichis
calledheartbeat,whenithappensthebloodconcentrationinbodychanges.Andweusethischangeto
makeavoltageorpulseelectrically.
CircuitDiagramandExplanation
Circuitofheartbeatmonitorisshownbelow,whichcontainsarduinouno,heartbeatsensormodule,
resetbuttonandLCD.ArduinocontrolswholetheprocessofsystemlikereadingpulsesformHeartbeat
sensormodule,calculatingheartrateandsendingthisdatatoLCD.Wecansetthesensitivityofthis
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sensormodulebyinbuiltpotentiometerplacedonthismodule.

Heartbeatsensormodulesoutputpinisdirectlyconnectedtopin8ofarduino.VccandGNDare
connectedtoVccandGND.A16x2LCDisconnectedwitharduinoin4bitmode.ControlpinRS,RW
andEnaredirectlyconnectedtoarduinopin12,GNDand11.AnddatapinD4D7isconnectedtopins
5,4,3and2ofarduino.Andonepushbuttonisaddedforresettingreadingandanotherisusedtostart
thesystemforreadingpulses.Whenweneedtocountheartrate,wepressstartbuttonthenarduino
startcountingpulsesandalsostartcounterforfiveseconds.Thisstartpushbuttonisconnectedtopin7
andresetpushbuttonisconnectedtopin6ofarduinowithrespecttoground.
ProgramDescription
IncodewehaveuseddigitalreadfunctiontoreadoutputofHeartBeatsensormoduleandmillis()
fuctionforcalculatingtimeandthencalculateHeartRate.

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Beforethiswehaveinitiazedallthecomponentsthatweusedinthisproject.

andherewehavepullupthepushbuttonlinebyusingsoftwarepullup.

Code:
#include<LiquidCrystal.h>
LiquidCrystallcd(12,11,5,4,3,2)
intin=8
intReset=6
intstart=7
intcount=0,i=0,k=0,rate=0
unsignedlongtime2,time1
unsignedlongtime
byteheart[8]=
{
0b00000,
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0b01010,
0b11111,
0b11111,
0b11111,
0b01110,
0b00100,
0b00000
}
voidsetup()
{
lcd.createChar(1,heart)
lcd.begin(16,2)

lcd.print("HeartBeat")
lcd.write(1)
lcd.setCursor(0,1)
lcd.print("Monitering")
pinMode(in,INPUT)
pinMode(Reset,INPUT)
pinMode(start,INPUT)
digitalWrite(Reset,HIGH)
digitalWrite(start,HIGH)
delay(1000)
}
voidloop()
{
if(!(digitalRead(start)))
{
k=0
lcd.clear()
lcd.print("Pleasewait.......")
while(k<5)
{
if(digitalRead(in))
{
if(k==0)
time1=millis()
k++
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while(digitalRead(in))
}
}
time2=millis()
rate=time2time1
rate=rate/5
rate=60000/rate
lcd.clear()
lcd.print("HeartBeatRate:")
lcd.setCursor(0,1)
lcd.print(rate)
lcd.print("")
lcd.write(1)
k=0
rate=0
}
if(!digitalRead(Reset))
{
rate=0
lcd.clear()
lcd.print("HeartBeatRate:")
lcd.setCursor(0,1)
lcd.write(1)
lcd.print(rate)
k=0
}
}
Video:

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