Smart ECG Monitoring Wireless System

Abstract

Under advanced patient diagnostic approach, expensive wearable Holter Electrocardiography unit is used to record cardiac parameters for 24 or 48 hours. This may cause inconvenience to patient due to weight, dangling wires and taxing additional time to transfer data to the hospital from patient’s location. IOT plays a crucial role to read and transfer ECG data from remote places effectively for individuals and more. In this paper low cost, low power, portable ECG monitoring system is designed and experimented. Hardware-software co-design realizes real-time, wireless, acquisition of cardiac parameters. AD8232 is used to capture cardiac signals and processing is realized using MSP432P401R microcontroller and IOT. Under the event driven approach, in case of specific abnormality, Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is transmitted, otherwise no transmission is allowed in order to reduce power consumption.This approach increases battery life time and reduces complexity.