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 International Journal of Innovations & Advancement in Computer Science
IJIACS
ISSN 2347 – 8616
Volume 7, Issue 4
April 2018

Heart Attack Detection and Heart Rate Monitoring Using IoT

Nikunj Patel Princekumar Patel Nehal Patel
CSPIT, CHARUSAT CSPIT, CHARUSAT CSPIT, CHARUSAT

BSTRACT
Nowadays numerous persons are mislaying their life owing to heart attack and shortage of medical attention to patient at
correct stage. Hence, in this project we are implementing heart rate monitoring and heart attack recognition system using
IoT. The patient will carry hardware having sensors with android application. The heartbeat sensor will allow checking
heart beat readings and transmit them over the internet. The user may set the high and low level of heartbeat limits. Once
these limits are set the system can start monitoring the patient’s heartbeat and as soon as the heart beat readings goes
above or below the limit set by the user the system will send an alert about high or low heartbeat as well about chances of
heart attack.
Keywords
Heart rate sensor, Monitor, Detect, IoT, Android smart phone.

INTRODUCTION
These days a number of people are losing their life due to heart attack. Heart attack can occur when the flow of
blood to heart is blocked. Owing to late diagnosis of heart attack we are inadequate to save the lives of many
humans. In this paper, we suggest a system that will detect heart attack by monitoring the heart rate based on
IoT (Internet of Things). For a healthy adult, ordinary heartrate is 60 to 100 bpm (beats per minute). Athlete’s
heart beat generally range from 40 to 60 bpm depending upon their fitness. If a person’s heart rate is constantly
over 100 beats per minute then the person is said to be having higher heart rate which is also notorious as
tachyarrhythmia. It can diminution the efficiency of heart by letdown the amount of blood pumped through the
body can result in chest pain and lightheadedness. With the advancement in technology it is easy to monitor the
patient’s heart rate even at home. IoT is dexterity of network mechanism to intellect and gather information
from world ubiquitously us then share the information athwart internet anywhere it can be managed for some
tenacity.

LITERATURE SURVEY
Table 1. Comparison of diverse existing Garbage Monitoring System
Sr.No. Title of Papers Year Sensors and Technology Used
1 IoT based Heart Attack Detection, Heart Rate 2017 Pulse sensor, ESP8266 wi-fi module, LM35
and Temperature Monitor[1] temperature sensor, Arduino Uno
2 Heartbeat Sensing and Heart Attack Detection 2017 Pulse sensor, wi-fi module, Arduino Uno
using Internet of Things[4]
3 IoT Based Heart Attack Detection and Alert 2017 Analog sensor, wireless module, ECG leads,
System[5] AVR microcontroller
4 IoT on Heart attack detection and heart rate 2016
MI Band 2, android phone, Big Data Analytics
monitoring[6]
5 Heart attack detection using Android Phone[7] 2016 ECG monitor, Android phone
6 Heart rate monitoring and Heart attack 2016 Smart band, Android phone
detection using wearable Device[8]
7 Heart rate monitoring system using finger tip 2016 Fingertip sensor, Arduino Uno, Nodemcu,
through Arduino and processing software [2] Android Phone
8 Heart attack detection and Medical attention 2014 Kinect, Xbox one
using Motion Sensing Device-Kinect[3]
9 Heart attack detection using Smart Phone[9] 2013 Smart Phone

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April 2018

PROPOSED WORK
The proposed system have eminence of detecting heart attack with help of observing heart rate based on internet
of thing. Our method uses a pulse sensor, Arduino board and a Wi-Fi module. After setting up the system, the
pulse sensor will start sensing heart rate readings and will display the heartbeat of person on LCD screen. Also,
with the use of Wi-Fi module it will transmit the data over internet. System allows a set point which can help
in determining whether a person is healthy or not by checking his/her heartbeat and comparing it with set point.
After setting these limits, the system will start monitoring the heart rate of patient and immediately the heart
rate goes above or below the certain limit the system will send an alert message. As a part of this project we are
implementing an android application model that will track the heartbeat of particular patient and monitor it
correctly and give the emergency message on chances of heart attack.

Fig. 1. System Architecture

IMPLEMENTATION
A. The Arduino Uno
Arduino uno, it is a microcontroller board. It is based on ATmega328. Moreover, there are 14 digital input and
output pins of which six can be usaged as PWM outputs. RX and TX pins are utilize for communication between
arduino board, computer or additional devices for serial communication. It has operating voltage of 5V.The
ATmega 328 has 32KB of flash memory for storing code. The ICSP(in-circuit serial programming) header will
permit us to use an outside programmer to upload software to our microcontroller unit[10].

Figure.2. Arduino uno board [4]

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April 2018

B. Pulse Sensor

Figure.3. Pulse Sensor with Arduino [11]

For arduino, the pulse sensor is plug and play heart rate sensor. It can be utilized by any persons who want to
simply include live heart rate information into their developments. The sensor displays the movement of blood
through the finger and is intended to give numerical output of heart beat once a finger is positioned on it[12].
C. NodeMCU ESP 8266

Figure.4. NodeMCU ESP 8266 [13]

The Node Microcontroller Unit (NodeMCU) is open source software and hardware enlargement background
that is constructed everywhere a very inexpensive system on a chip named the ESP8266. In our System we have
used NodeMCU to receive data from Arduino and send that data over internet[14].

RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

After setting up the system, check all the connections. Once the system is ready upload the source code. After
uploading the code place the index finger on the heartbeat sensor. The heartbeat sensor will start monitoring the
pulse rate. LCD is used for displaying the calculated pulse rate.

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Figure.5. Pulse rate display on LCD Screen

Figure.6. Heart alert message display on LCD Screen

The system has configured maximum range of heart beat. Once the system starts measuring the Human heart
beat, if it crosses the set limit then the system will send alert about heart rate. Also the system alerts for lower
heart rate.

Figure.7. Counting pulse rate

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The reading from sensor will be uploaded to server where data will be store. The readings will be refreshed
consistently giving the extension for constant seeing of the patient.

CONCLUSION
In this exploration we have attempted to propose a total paper on detecting heart attack by monitoring the
heartbeat of person. The heart beat sensor which is interfaced with microcontroller senses the heartbeat of person
and transmits them over internet using Wi-Fi module. System allows setting limits of heart beat. After setting
these limits person can start monitoring the heart beat and whenever the person’s heart beat goes above certain
set point they can get an alert on high heart beat and also about chances of heart attack. Also the system alerts
for lower heartbeat.

REFERENCES
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[2] Mallick, Bandana, and Ajit Kumar Patro. "Heart rate monitoring system using finger tip through arduino and
processing software." International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research (IJSETR) 5.1 (2016):
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[3] Patel, Shivam, and Yogesh Chauhan. "Heart attack detection and medical attention using motion sensing device-
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[10] https://store.arduino.cc/usa/arduino-uno-rev3
[11] http://www.theorycircuit.com/pulse-sensor-arduino/
[12] http://www.instructables.com/id/Pulse-Sensor-With-Arduino-Tutorial/
[13] http://play.fallows.ca/wp/projects/electronics-projects/understanding-nodemcu-esp8266-12e-limitations/
[14] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/iot-nodemcu-open-why-use/index.html

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