Heart Beat Rate Monitoring using GSM Technology

Abstract

Heart-related problems and parameters are very much important to human beings. With the gradual technological advances, it made easier for the people to capture and monitor changes in their health parameters irrespective of time and location. Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common diseases and at times can be deadly too. Detection and verification of atrial fibrillation can be done by checking the variation in the period of heart rate, if a patient has this disease then the period between each heartbeat will vary. With the increase in the population and the rise of healthcare costs, plenty of people will suffer worldwide due to lack of thorough monitoring of the patients and the inability to pay the bills. This has increased the demand for affordable quality healthcare from remote locations with the periodical inspection by the hygiene officer through GSM technology. Technological advancements in the field of hardware resulted in the depreciation of cost and most importantly reduced the communication gap between the patient and the medical personnel. In this paper, the capability for alarm systems with SMS and MATLAB is implemented as optimization techniques to reduce error and perform real-time monitoring of the patient properly.