Heart rate (beats) Meter with Microcontroller

AT89c51 based heartbeat monitor

This is revised version of heart beat monitor using 8051 heart beat monitor located in this blog ob post.

http://microcontroller51.blogspot.com/2009/07/heart-beat-monitor-with-microcontroller.html

There were some question asked related to this project. So i decided to redesign the project and make some

necessary changes in the algorithm to measure the heart pulses per minute. microcontroller based heartbeat

monitor with lcd display ir led and ldr based heartbeat monitor with display on computer and microcontroler LCD

display.

The heart rate meter is used to measure the heart beats per minute from finger placing between the sensor. The

sensor is made of simple photo resistor and LED. The pulses from the circuit are them amplified and converted

into TTL logic pulses using comparator Operational Amplifier.

The analog section of the project is same and taken as such from the last post on this project. Student can take

the circuit diagram from that post, if it is not clear. However the LCD connection to Microcontroller are changed in

this post. As describe earlier this post is written in the response of student questions so the hardware is slightly

changed. If you are familiar of electronics and lcd PIN connection, then you will notice there are not major

changes. for LCD details like PIN connection and interfacing with microcontroller, you can just read some related

post in this blog. Sufficient material is uploaded for the interfacing of LCD with microcontroller.

In this project, we have used one line 16 character LCD, but any other similar LCD can be connected.heart beat

monitor (8051based)

Circuit diagram of the heart rate monitor(micro controller based heartbeat monitor ) is shown below.how we can

calculate the heart beat with photo resistance

The code is written in keil C51 compiler. The c code listing for heart rate (beat) monitor is given below.

#include<at89x52.h> // plz ad the reg51 . h file

#include<string.h> // plz ad the string . h file
//heart beat monitor 8051 based
#define lcdport P2 // chnage it for ur hardware
sbit rw = P3^7; // LCD connection may be different
sbit rs=P3^6; // LCD interface with microcontroller
sbit en=P3^5; // Enable pin of LCD
unsigned char sec,sec100;
unsigned int bt,tick,r,bpm;
void lcdinit();
void lcdcmd(unsigned char);
void lcddata(unsigned char);
void send_string(unsigned char *s);
void msdelay(unsigned int);

void extrint (void) interrupt 0 // external Interrupt to detect the heart

pulse
{
bt=tick; // number of ticks are picked
tick=0; // reset for next counting
}
void timer0 (void) interrupt 1 using 1 // Timer 0 for one second time
{
TH0 = 0xdc; //The value is taken for Ssc/100 at crystal 11.0592MHz
sec100++; // It is incremented every Ssc/100 at crystal 11.0592MHz
tick++; // This variable counts the time period of incoming pulse in
Sec/100
if(tick>=3500){tick=0;} // tick are limited to less trhan 255 for valid
calculation
if(sec100 >=100) // 1 sec = sec100 * 100
{
sec++;
sec100=0;
}
}

void main()
{
P0=0xff;
P1=0xff;
P2=0xff;
P3=0xff;
rw=0;
EA = 1;
TMOD = 0x21;
IT0 = 1;
EX0 = 1;
ET0 = 1;
TR0 = 1;

msdelay(1000);
lcdinit();
msdelay(1000);
send_string("Heart beat ");
msdelay(1500);

msdelay(500);

//delay(15000);
bpm=0;bt=0;

while(1)
{

if(sec >=1)
{
sec=0;
/*
The sampling time is fixed 1 sec.
A variable "tick" is incremented with one tick per 100mSc in the timer 0
interrupt routine.
Each on occurring of external interrupt the value in the "tick" is picked
up
and it is set to zero for recounting.
The process continues till next external interrupt.
Formula for calculating beats per minutes (microcontroller based heartbeat
monitor ) is

as tick is the time period in Sec/100. so extract the frequency of pulses

at external interrupt
Frequency = (1/tick)* 100 i.e pulses /sec
Then
bpm = frequency * 60 for one minutes i.e pulses per minute
in short we can do it as
bpm = 6000/ bt

*/
lcdcmd(0x02);
if(bt >=7){
bpm = 6000/bt; // for valid output bt is limited so that it should be
greater than 6
msdelay(500);
send_string("Pulse. ");
lcddata((bpm/100)+0x30);
r=bpm%100;
lcddata((r/10)+0x30);
lcddata((r%10)+0x30);
send_string(" bpm ");
}
else {
send_string("out of range");} // otherwise bpm will be shown zero, if limit
does not fit for your project you can change it.
}
}
}
void lcdinit()
{
msdelay(100);
lcdcmd(0x01);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x38);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x38);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x38);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x06);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x0c);
msdelay(500);
lcdcmd(0x03);
msdelay(500);
msdelay(500);
}
void lcdcmd(unsigned char value)
{
rs=0;
lcdport=value;
msdelay(100);
en=1;
msdelay(100);
en=0;
msdelay(100);
rs=1;
}
void lcddata(unsigned char value)
//heart beat monitoring system using microcontroller
{
rs=1;
lcdport=value;
msdelay(10);
en=1;
msdelay(100);
en=0;
rs=0;
}
void msdelay(unsigned int i)
{
//unsigned int i;
while(i --);
}
void send_string(unsigned char *s)
{
unsigned char l,i;
l = strlen(s); // get the length of string
for(i=1;i <=l;i++)
{
lcddata(*s); // write every char one by one
s++;
}
}

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