“Cardioxy” – A Novel and Portable Instrumentation Amplifier based and IoT enabled ECG device

During the COVID-19 pandemic the healthcare facilities all over world collapsed due to shortage of essential biomedical devices. ECG devices are one of those crucial instruments required for tracing electrical activities of heart. Due to the high cost of gold standard ECG devices used in the medical industries, the availability of on-demand ECG devices was not accessible to everyone. Thus, the need of portable, low cost, on-demand ECG device was needful at the earliest. In this paper we propose a novel, versatile, 3-lead, IoT enabled, LM324/LM741 operational amplifiers in instrumentation amplifier configuration Electrocardiogram machine that is aimed towards providing accurate information about the electrical activity of our heart in real time. In this attempt, we have come up with an analogue circuit design consisting of multiple operational amplifier IC based fundamental circuit blocks. The prototype is designed in such a way that the output of ECG can be visualised worldwide using IoT.