A review of technologies for heart attack monitoring systems

Every year, approximately 1.35 million people die in car accidents. One of the causes of traffic accidents is a heart attack while driving. Common heart attack warning signs are pain or discomfort in the chest or one or both arms or shoulders, light-headedness, faintness, cold sweat, and shortness of breath. When having a heart attack, a car driver has strong pain in the centre or left side of the chest. Current technology for heart attack detection is based on sensory signal properties such as the electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate and oxygen saturation (SpO2). This paper is intended to give the readers an overview of technologies for heart attack monitoring system that has been used at the hospital, at the home and in the vehicle. The result shows that ECG, heart rate and SpO2 properties are mostly used by numerous researchers for heart attack monitoring systems at hospitals. Meanwhile, many researchers developed a system by using heart rate, ECG, SpO2 and images as properties for heart attack monitoring systems at home. Existing technologies for heart attack monitoring systems in the vehicle used heart rate and ECG as properties in a system. However, there are no review papers yet on heart attack monitoring systems using image processing in vehicles. We believe that researchers and practitioners will embrace this technology by addressing image processing in the heart attack monitoring system in vehicles

WBSN based safe lifestyle: A case study of heartrate monitoring system

A Heart is the vital organ of the body. According to the “world health statistics, 2017” by WHO, about 460,000 people die due to fatal heart attacks every year. To reduce the death rate due to fatal heart attacks and malfunctioning of the cardiovascular system, this paper proposed a Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) based, portable, easily affordable, miniatured, accurate “Heartrate Monitoring System (HMS)”. HMS can be used to regularly examine the cardiac condition at home or hospital to avoid or early detection of any serious condition. Heartrate Monitoring Algorithm (HMA) was designed to observe the spread heartbeat spectrum and worked at the backend of HMS. A case study was performed for forty healthy young subjects. Each subject data was computed for (sub) ̅-3S_

Wireless Sensor Device For Health Monitoring, Using ZigBee Technology

In this project, we develop a portable real-time wireless health monitoring system. Goal of the project is to monitor patient's heart rate. The system was designed and implemented using ZigBee wireless technologies. All data will be transferred within a group of wireless network to database computer system. The sensor modules were designed for low power operation so that it can last long. This project is divided into two phase which is sensor design phase and transmission phase. In the first phase, sensor unit consists of two types of LEDs and photodiode that is facing to a patient's fingertip and microcontroller unit for interacting with ZigBee module. Second phase involve ZigBee module to communicate with heart rate sensor. ZigBee module gets all commands from microcontroller unit and it works on both transmitting and receiving process. Throughput from ZigBee receiver will be displayed at computer for monitoring purpose. This method can be developed into a noninvasive technique to measure body temperature and blood pressure