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MICROCHIP PIC MONITOR USING ARDUINO Protoype PCB
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amplified to obtain a nice and clean PPG waveform, which is
synchronous with the heart beat. For more details, read Easy Pulse ESP8266 projects
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Hardware setup
The hardware setup for this project is very simple. All you need is an
Easy Pulse V1.1 sensor, an Arduino board, a PC, and few wires. The
analog PPG output from Easy Pulse board is fed to an ADC channel of
Arduino to convert it into digital counts for further processing. In this
project, I am using a Crowduino board, a clone of Arduino
Duemilanove, which is manufactured by Elecrow.
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The following picture shows the connections between the Easy Pulse,
Crowduino and Power supply. The Easy Pulse sensor operates at +5V.
The Enable pin (EN) of Easy Pulse is tied to VCC pin so that the sensor
is activated. There is a 2-pin jumper on the Easy Pulse board to do
this. The jumper is placed between VCC and EN pin by default, so you
don’t need an external wire to do this. The analog output pin (AO)
goes to analog input channel A0 of Crowduino. A mini USB cable
connects the Crowduino board to the PC. The power supply for Easy
Pulse is derived from the Crowduino board.
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Arduino Sketch
The programming part of Arduino is very simple. The Arduino takes
the ADC samples of the analog PPG signal at 5ms interval and
continuously transmits the data to the PC through the USB-UART
interface.
/*
AnalogReadSerial
Reads an analog input on pin 0, prints the result to the serial monito
void loop() {
int sensorValue = analogRead(A0);
Serial.println(sensorValue);
delay_x(5);
}
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PC application
On PC side, we develop an application that reads the incoming ADC
samples from the Arduino, and process them to extract the PPG
signal and heart rate. The Processing software is used to develop this
application. The following flow-chart explains the overall logic of
computing the heart rate from the received ADC samples.
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Future work
The current version of the Processing application displays the near-
real-time PPG waveform and heart rate but does not record anything.
There is a lot of room for improvements. Here’s a short list of
features that I am seeing for its future release:
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Sir,
I want the detailed procedures of this project.
Help me please..
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Hello,
I am using Windows. I tried using the available
COM Ports. But it still didn’t work..!
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Hi There!
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You can find out more in my video on youtube which link is located
below, It’s description contain all the links to the project files, hosted
on Mediafire, and of course credits back to you too, I have left the
comments in your processing sketch untouched.
Hope you have a great day, and thank you very much for everything
you share, and making this project work on my end!
Thanks!
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Hi everyone,
I want use this easy pulse senor to calculate systolic
and diastolic pressures by writing a program in to
micro controller taking the comparision between high
peek and low peek…I want to do this by connecting easy pulse sensor
to arduino board…is it possible to do? any help in this is much
appreciated…
Thanks in Advance
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Perfect project !
I decide make small heart monitor for my mom with
1.8″ TFT, ESP8266 and STM32L151 with 2xAAA size.
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Xmega January 9, 2015 8:59 pm
Do I need to install an FTDI driver for the crowduino Categories Select Category
board? Every arduino board tutorial website says that
about the Arduino Duemilanove and since u said the
crowduino board is 100% compatible with the
Duemilanove, I felt it might also need d FTDI. But do I need to install
it? Plz, I need ur answer ASAP for my final year project. and it’s due in
three days.
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using Arduino IDE. The second is the PC application and you need
to install Processing software to compile and run it.
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Error C:\PogramData\Oracle\Java\javapat\javaw.exe
I need Help
Thank You
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Hi,
I am doing this for my project, but the heart pulse
didn’t appear on the screen. I got an empty screen
when I run he processing code.
Thanks
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Thanks for making this. I have been playing with the
Easy Pulse Version 1.1 for the last few days, and it
seems to have become non-responsive. Can do you Categories Select Category
know what might have caused this and what I can do to
fix it?
Details:
– I have it wired at an Arduino Uno, which is connected to my laptop
via USB.
– I used the Arduino sketch that you provided and modified it to take
digital reads of A0. It was working wonderfully earlier tonight: my
console log was showing data consistent with my heart beat, and the
red LED on the board was blinking in time.
After 1 or 2 hours of testing with the board (it was gathering data
almost the whole time) the easy pulse board just stopped sending
data and the LED stopped glowing. Adjusting the VR and Gain have
no effect.
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Hi Ryan,
I would suggest to use this user guide for testing
the sensor:
http://embedded-
lab.com/uploads/manuals/EasyPulse_User_Guide.pdf
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R-B October 7, 2014 9:28 pm
First test the sensor only using a 5V power supply. Categories Select Category
The instructions are provided here:
http://embedded-
lab.com/uploads/manuals/EasyPulse_User_Guide.p
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hi
when i want to install the
”Easy_Pulse_PPG_Analyzer_V1_0.exe” windows says:
‘sorry, windows can not find ‘javaw.exe’. make sure you
typed the name correctly, and then try again later.’
how can i solve this problem.
please help me…
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etc……
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Hi,
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Regards,
Chand
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Hi Chand,
Make sure you change the Serial Port number
appropriate to your PC settings in the PC Processing
application.
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