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wearable heart rate monitoring system..need help

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Hai,

I just starting my project to construct a device that can be wear to monitor heart beat during exercise.

In my planning it has piezoelectric sensor --> signal conditioning circuit ( amplifier-->filter)-->adc-->
microblaze processor-->zigbee-->display system.

I confuse with the result from the piezoelectric sensor that only can be read using oscilloscope and also it not constant..
How i can construct my amplifier and filter circuit..

hope somebody can help and guide me for this project..

Thanks :)
 

They currently have a watch style heart rate monitor. There are also finger style heart rate and pulse ox in one unit. check **broken link removed**

found it with the search below

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...rome&ie=UTF-8&q=heart+rate+monitor+schematics

jieheo said:
Hai,

I just starting my project to construct a device that can be wear to monitor heart beat during exercise.

In my planning it has piezoelectric sensor --> signal conditioning circuit ( amplifier-->filter)-->adc-->
microblaze processor-->zigbee-->display system.

I confuse with the result from the piezoelectric sensor that only can be read using oscilloscope and also it not constant..
How i can construct my amplifier and filter circuit..

hope somebody can help and guide me for this project..

Thanks :)
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Thanks for your help..

The requirement for my project is to use piezoelectric sensor to detect the heart beat.

in this project h**p://designscience.umich.edu/pdf%20files/APD-2003-08.pdf , they use ECG method to monitor heart beat..
In many research that i made, they use ECG as 2 electrode was attached to the body to get the heart beat reading.
Is ECG concept is the same with piezoelectric transducer?

How i can minimize the noise from the output of PZT?
 

found an item from search "piezoelectric sensor heart rate monitor" h**p://www.ecrater.com/p/7190199/visual-electronic-stethoscope-ecg-hr at $160

since you can use a pezo as an input and output it sounds possible, though I would be questioning the low frequency of a heartbeat. though they have pezo pedometers now well since your going to amplify the signal, a low pass filter would cut high end noise out op07 was used an a schematic I saw on this board for amp for ECG. on fleabay they have a few ultra low noise opamp to choose from.

jieheo said:
Thanks for your help..v

The requirement for my project is to use piezoelectric sensor to detect the heart beat.

in this project h**p://designscience.umich.edu/pdf%20files/APD-2003-08.pdf , they use ECG method to monitor heart beat..
In many research that i made, they use ECG as 2 electrode was attached to the body to get the heart beat reading.
Is ECG concept is the same with piezoelectric transducer?

How i can minimize the noise from the output of PZT?
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I dont know for detection heartbeat with piezo, but with highbright led this works, throught finger or ear.
 

yes they have ir led pulse/ox piezo changes electricity to pressure or pressure to electricity, though the pressure is quite a bit higher in frequency, and it can resonate, question i see what length of piezo will give best performance. normally the lower the frequency the larger area required. though with pulses per minuet. I would think an armband similar to mp3 players would give pressure to the skin so counter pressure would feel the pulse. There is a device for the wii dont have one so dont know their sensor technique, though a good place to start. have seen them in walmart, shopko, target stores, but sounds like a way to see how it operates.


tpetar said:
I dont know for detection heartbeat with piezo, but with highbright led this works, throught finger or ear.
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My opinion piezo approach is very bad and inaccurate. Better chances are with electronic stethoscope to hear heart beat. Piezo must be very well isolated from back side. I dont see any commercial product based on that, of course I didnt see, maybe exist or someone experimenting with that and developing some project.
 

There is 1 thing to keep in mind, any amplifier circuit will introduce noise into the signal, that is one main reason doctors use real stethoscopes.
 

estefan2020 said:
There is 1 thing to keep in mind, any amplifier circuit will introduce noise into the signal, that is one main reason doctors use real stethoscopes.
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Yes and No. I know lots of doctors who use electronic stetoscope. You have in market for 100-300eur price.

Also like exist noise, like that exist filters. ;-)
 

tpetar said:
I dont know for detection heartbeat with piezo, but with highbright led this works, throught finger or ear.
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hi...
I am also working on a project to measure heartbeat.... I tried a ckt using high intensity led and ldr. i monitored the pulse rate using led.. by when it was fed as the i/p to pic it doesnt picked the signal...can you pls give me the details of your ckt if you have any....

Thanks...
 


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