Design and Construction of Biomedical Device for Measurement of Physiological Parameters of Human Body

Year: 2012

Issue: May-Jul    

Title: Design and Construction of Biomedical Device for Measurement of Physiological Parameters of Human Body 

Author Name: Raksha Diwakar, sheikh rafik manihar, Jayant Rajpurohit   

Synopsis: 

There is a huge market of noninvasive devices to measure the parameters. But they have limitations like either they are continuously health monitoring system or they can measure only one parameter and keep records. The health monitoring systems which are used in multispecialty hospitals are very bulky and costly. This paper proposes a design and implementation of a reliable, cheap, low powered non-intrusive and accurate system that can measure many parameters of human body and keep the records of each patient. It gives an idea to make a database of each patient so that whenever the patient comes to the doctor he doesn’t have to keep his record with him manually. Such a device can be handled by non technical personnel also and can be used both in small clinics and big hospitals. This paper is presented with a motto of saving time of both the doctor and patients. As the device can measure the vital signs in a very less time it can save time of doctor and no. of patients can be observed. This paper specifically deals with the signal conditioning and data acquisition of three vital signs: heart rate, body temperature, and weight. The vital signs that have been taken are temperature, heart rate and body mass index. The heart rate is measured by Heart beat sensor which works on the principle of light modulation by blood flow through finger at each pulse. The temperature is measured by using LM34 which measures the temperature directly in Fahrenheit and does not need external calibrations. And the weight is measured by load cell. Here a simple circuit is designed by using AT89S52 microcontroller as heart of the circuit. The three sensors are connected with microcontroller via signal conditioning equipments. The data is also easily accessible by both the doctor and patient as complete record of output can be generated by using VB as programming language.