Study and investigation of continuous cardiac monitoring using vernier EKG with myRIO processor

In today's advancement in technology, affordable healthcare services still not in pace for constrained population. Especially cardiac-related screening needs special attention which increases the mortality rate of chronic cardiac patients every day. Several studies showed that most of the rural healthcare centre does not have the Electro Cardiogram (ECG) System for recording the physiological conditions of the patients. This specific study attempts to investigate the usage of Vernier EKG sensor with real time processor for developing portable ECG system. The preliminary work investigates the suitability of the ECG signal quantitatively and qualitatively for clinical support. A case study was shown with two feature extraction, namely, R-R interval, beats per minute and spectral entropy and the application of KNN classifier to distinguish two different physiological conditions. It was observed that the proposed configuration found to be a cost effective procedure. The quantitative and qualitative results confirm the suitability of the proposed system for real time cardiac monitoring of patients as well as screening tool.