DSP BASED PORTABLE ECG MONITORING SYSTEM

Abstract

An electrocardiogram (ECG)  gives important information to doctors to analyse heart related abnormalities such as arrhythmias or monitor drug effects. For an ambulatory system, there is a requirement for  continuous monitoring. Hence, the data generated is huge and needs huge storage space. As the data is huge, it needs to be compressed before transmission. The compression of data is carried out using a suitable compression methodology. In this work, a real time DSP based portable ECG monitoring system is developed to acquire the ECG signal in real time. The acquired data is compressed before transmission. This helps with efficient storage management. The system helps monitor ECG signals in real time and is useful to doctors for diagnosis.