Mukesh kumar Manish ranjan Tripat kaur

Our aim is to design a microcontroller 8051 based device, which monitors heart rate by using variation in absorption of light through the finger using sensor.

The sensor is made of simple photo resistor and LED. The pulses from the circuit are then amplified and converted into TTL logic pulses using comparator Operational Amplifier

The amount of blood in the finger limits the amount of light absorbed by the photodiode. Electro Magnetic Spectrum

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By placing our finger in between a LED and photo resistance, we can detect the pulses of heart. The analog voltages are further processed with an operational amplifier LM 358, this chip has two built in OPAMPs. The TTL pulses or digital pulse are then feed to the external interrupt of microcontroller 8051. By using a software counter in the code , we can count the pulses, and the result the process is displayed on an LCD (2 line 16 characters).

We were able to get the heart rate monitor to work. We have proposed a low-cost solution to enhance the heart rate monitoring capability of existing health care system. The IR work best for all skin tones. It is secure, robust and low-power consuming.