REAL-TIME ARRHYTHMIA MONITORING AND DETECTION SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSIS

Arrhythmia is a kind of heart disease with the implication of abnormal heart beat rhythm; either it is too fast, too slow or with an irregular rhythm which can lead to death if the patient did not go for appropriate treatment within the time. The symptoms of this disease is atypical, thus continuous monitoring system is needed in order to pre-detect the disease followed by earlier treatment so that unwanted end of someone life can be avoided. This project is proposing a real-time, continuously monitoring and detection system for arrhythmia patient which will allow the collected data from patient being analyzed on the exact time. Throughout this paper, the proposed system will be designed for home-based usage with remote diagnosis feature to give more comfort to the patient and flexibility to the doctor or cardiologist. The system will be programmed in LabVIEW; a graphical programming software from National Instruments with the ECG sensor attached to the PC via DAQ board to allow real-time data collecting and analysis as well as the add-on feature to enable the web-based monitoring system for remote observation.