ECG

MONITORING
SYSTEM

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 TEAM

ARBAB SHUJAAT MUHAMMAD ASIF ASSAD ULLAH

AHMAD AYUB KHAN

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Circuit & System 1
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Contents

01 Introduction
WHAT IS ECG ? & MOTIVATION

02 Circuit Diagram
Description, Components

03 Working & Procedure

Process, Uses, Applications

04 Conclusion & Results

Outcome, Q&A

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Motivation & Objectives
Electrocardiographs available in the market are very
expensive.
Most hospitals and heath care centers at rural and
remote areas of Pakistan cannot afford such
expensive devices.
Patients from these area suffer from
underdiagnosing.
A low cost portable ECG monitoring device will come
in aid to the health care of these underprivileged
regions.
As PC/Laptops are now widely available, an ECG
monitoring system that can be connected to a
PC/Laptop will solve the problem to an extent.
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INTRODUCTIO
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Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG)
is the process of recording the
electrical activity of the heart
over a period of time using
electrodes placed on the skin.
These electrodes detect the tiny
electrical changes on the skin
that arise from the depolarizing
and repolarizing of heart muscle
during each heartbeat .

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 Challenges in ECG Acquisition

Very low signal amplitude to detect Wires connected to ECG leads or

1 & Often very noisy because of both 4 electrodes often fluctuate to
internal & external sources . produce motion artifacts .

Selection of a low-cost, affordable Subject motion is problematic in

2 electrodes and available local 5
reliable ECG acquisition .
resources.

3 Making it portable is not easy. 6 Some other problem as well

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Circuit Diagram

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 Tools & Components
• LM324N Operational Amplifier
• Electrodes & Clips
• Resistors & Capacitors
• 9v Battery
• Arduino Mega
• MATLAB & Arduino IDE.

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 FLOW OF ECG SIGNAL

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ECG CIRCUIT

02 ARDUINO PROGRAM

03 MATLAB PROGRAM & OUTPUT

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 CIRCUIT TO PC/LAPTOP INTERFACING USING ARDUINO
• To interface the circuit with PC/Laptop, an Arduino is used.
• The signal is feed into the analog input port A1 of the Arduino.
• Arduino is instructed to read the analog signal.
• Arduino performs ADC on the ECG signal.
• Arduino is instructed to dump the data in a variable.
• Arduino is instructed to initiate serial communication with serial
• plotter with baud rate 115200.
• Sampling frequency is 785 Hz.
• ECG signal is view on PC/Laptop screen using serial plotter.

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 SERIAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ARDUINO AND MATLAB
• Serial communication is established between Arduino and MATLAB
using the same communication port and same baud rate so that data
from the Arduino can be sent to MATLAB.
• Number of samples MATLAB should store is specified. Arduino sends
one sample per milliseconds. Therefore, for ECG recording of 1 minute,
60000 samples were taken.
• Received data from the Arduino is dumped in an matrix array by
MATLAB.
• When the specified number of samples are taken, the communication
channel is terminated and MATLAB plots the data it received from
Arduino.

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 Conclusion
• The ECG monitoring system developed is very cheap (around 1500 BDT)
and will come in aid of people living in the rural and remote areas of
Pakistan.
• The system only requires a PC/Laptop as processing terminal which are
now even available in these rural or remote areas.
• The ECG signal obtained after analog and digital filtering is of
satisfyingly good quality.
• The morphological values and the report generated by the algorithm
can help doctors make diagnosis more easily.

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 Further Improvements
Interfacing a graphical LCD and
1 eliminate the need of a PC/Laptop
for real-time monitoring.

Develop a smartphone application

2 and interface the circuit with it so
that real-time analysis can be
perform using a smartphone.

Generating professional ECG

3 Diagnosis Report (After consultation
with clinicians)

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Thanks!
Any questions?
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