A non invasive method for calculating calories burned during exercise using heartbeat

In this paper, we presented the novel design and development of a non-invasive new integrated device for measuring calories burnt from the heart rate in Arduino environment. By using the heart rate, a relation for calories burnt will be calculated. As obese people are most concerned about losing their weight, they regularly need to check the weight they lose during exercises. This calorie estimator helps in calculating calories burnt by using raise in heartbeat during am exercise. In this project, heart rate is measured using Heartbeat sensor (IR sensor). However, most heart rate measuring tools and environments are expensive and do not follow ergonomics. Our proposed IR sensor is economical and user friendly and uses optical technology to detect the flow of blood through index finger. In this project, Arduino is used in which microcontroller ATmega328 is embedded into it, suitable codes have been written to detect and count the heartbeat and also to calculate the calories burnt.