HeartSaver: A heart rate monitoring system with SMS notification

摘要

Heart diseases are one of the most common ailments that subtly kill its victim within seconds. The lack of knowledge about one's heart rate is one of the common reasons why it successfully penetrates the victim's heart at stealth. Portable monitoring device became a trend in the field of medicine for various benefits and ease for the user; it avoids the hassle in going to hospitals, coping up with check-up schedules, and paying huge amount of money just to have a close monitoring of one's heart activity. The portable heart rate monitoring device was created to give the patient the ease in monitoring their heart rate with the use of their smartphones, which are connected via live Bluetooth connection, using Bluetooth Shield 4.0. The monitoring sessions' output is accurately and reliably aligns with the heart rate monitoring devices used in hospitals, which are proven through a series of (1) accuracy test, (2])reliability test, and for the SMS feature, (3)the accuracy of SMS notification upon reaching the threshold, and (4) the Bluetooth range between the device and the smartphone. The sessions can be stored and retrieved from the memory of the smartphone itself. It can also be used to closely monitor the heart rate at a real time basis on a certain period of time. The device can be used within 10 m. radius away from the smartphone and can utilize the SMS notification feature using the regular load of the phone's SIM card.