Intelligent and Soft Computing Systems for Green Energy

21IoT-Based Heart Rate Monitoring System for Smart Healthcare Applications

Jaba Deva Krupa Abel, Samiappan Dhanalakshmi*, Sanjana N.L. and R. Kumar

Department of ECE, College of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, SRM Nagar, Kancheepuram, Chengapattu Dt., Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

Non-invasive and continuous monitoring of the heart is necessary to ensure the good health of every human being. The underlying challenge faced is the distance between the doctor and the patient, followed by lack of transportation, poverty, and poor-quality services. The other constraints are obtaining the proper morphology of the QRS complex of the Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal followed by R peak detection and calculation of heart rate. Various techniques were proposed to resolve this problem but obtaining the accurate morphology remains one of the biggest challenges since the raw ECG signal is corrupted by noises like power line interference and motion artifacts. This paper aims at developing an IoT-based heart rate monitoring system. Fractional Fourier transform is used to estimate the QRS complex of the ECG signals and thereby the heart rate. The proposed algorithm is validated using ECG signals from the Physionet MIT arrhythmia database. The proposed algorithm ensures accurate heart rate detection and is implemented on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud on the internet. The proposed robust algorithm for heart rate detection ...