Design and Implementation of wireless heart monitor for expectant mothers in their 3rd trimester
Journal Title: International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) - Year 2014, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
A low cost Maternal & Fetal Heart Rate (MFHR) monitor is introduced in an attempt to reduce or eliminate hypoxic episodes well before the development of fetal asphyxia. MFHR monitoring is sensitive and detects fetal hypoxia early in the evolution to acidosis. The abdominal electrocardiogram (AECG) is the recording of the cardiac activity of both the mother and the fetus. The main challenge is to extract the fetal ECG, which is strongly distorted by maternal component of dominating energy and artifacts like baseline wander and power-line interference which were effectively preprocessed and filtered by using a Kaiser FIR filter having a SNR ratio of 13.68 , filter order of 298 and a Notch filter (fc = 50 Hz) with a bandwidth of 2 Hz respectively. Our endeavor has been to design this MFHR monitoring device using a smartphone. This system continuously monitors the patient’s AECG data especially in the 3rd trimester. For the ongoing research work the maternal AECG signals were taken from the Physionet non-invasive ECG database. The AECG file is transferred from the PC to a microcontroller ATMEGA32A which is interfaced to a Bluetooth module. Data is then transferred wirelessly via Bluetooth to the phone. The smartphone contains an application that displays data received from the Bluetooth module interfaced with a plotter application. This Bluetooth Plotter application plots the ECG waveforms of the content on the phone. Various inferences were effectively made based upon the ECG graphs produced on the phone, thus giving the doctors an alert about the patient’s and Fetal ECG information. Further research will examine the real time patient’s data from the hospital assigned to us.
Authors and Affiliations
Niyan Marchon1 , Dr. Gourish Naik
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