SRI SIDDHARTHA ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

(Declared as Deemed to be University Under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)

AGALAKOTE, TUMAKURU – 572107
KARNATAKA

SYNOPSIS
ON
“PORTABLE MEDICAL KIT WITH ECG, EEG AND
TEMPERATURE SENSOR”

Submitted by,
HARISH K S (14EC020)
A R HARSHITH (14EC021)
DIMPLE JALLIPALLI (14EC024)
SHAHEELA A (14EC066)

Under the Guidance of

Dr. M Z Kurian
HOD and Professor, Department. of E&C,
SSIT, MARALUR TUMAKURU

In partial fulfillment of
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
IN
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

SRI SIDDHARTHA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(A Constituent College of Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education)
MARALUR, TUMAKURU-572105

2017-18
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The satisfaction and euphoria that accompany the successful completion of any task
would be incomplete without mentioning the people who made it possible and their support
had been a constant source of encouragement which crowned my efforts with success.

We are deeply indebted and would like to express our sincere thanks to our beloved
Principal Dr. M.K.Veeraiah, S.S.I.T, Tumakuru, for providing us an opportunity to do this project.

We express our deep sense of gratitude to Dr. M Z Kurian, HOD, Department of

Electronics and Communication, S.S.I.T, Tumakuru, for his guidance, constant encouragement
and wholehearted support.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all the staff members of Electronics and
Communication Department, S.S.I.T. for their valuable guidance and support.

Project Associates

HARISH K S (14EC020)
A R HARSHITH (14EC021)
DIMPLE JALLIPALLI (14EC024)
SHAHEELA A (14EC066)
 ABSTRACT

This project deals with the integration of medical sensors in a single kit. It includes EEG
which detects the brain waves. Heart beat sensor for detecting live feed of ECG Waveforms
Temperature sensor for detecting body temperature of the patient controlled and
monitored by the raspberry pi. The integrated kit is portable and easy to use. The main
objective is to provide necessary aid in remote places with affordable cost.

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record

electrical activity of the brain. It is typically noninvasive, with the electrodes placed along
the scalp, although invasive electrodes are sometimes used such as in electro corticography.

A normal resting heart rate for adult’s ranges from 60 to 100 beats a minute. Generally, a
lower heart rate at rest implies more efficient heart function and better cardiovascular
fitness. For example, a well-trained athlete might have a normal resting heart rate closer to
40 beats a minute.

Body temperature is a measure of the body's ability to generate and get rid of heat.
The body is very good at keeping its temperature within a narrow, safe range in spite of
large variations in temperatures outside the body.

The necessary report is generated and is given to the doctor for analysis . This report
includes expected diseases for the sensor data. The live data can be displayed in any
monitors instantaneously. This helps doctors in quick and easy analysis even in remote
areas of the world

The handy medical kit is designed to be portable and handy enough to contain just the
right amount of medical components to get you through until you can access advance
medical treatment.
 INTRODUCTION

Health care costs have risen exponentially in the last decade. Statistics released by the
NSSO report in 2014. Health care in India rural cost Rs172 billion or nearly Rs 15,200 for every
person hospitalizations. According to experts, many people die due to lack of medical equipment
in rural hospitals and globally too in 2010, an estimated 16.9 million people died (32% of all
deaths worldwide) due to lack of access hospital equipment’s. A Lancet commission report says
the above figure surpasses the number of deaths due to AIDS (1.46 million), tuberculosis (1.2
million) and s(1.17 million).Regular monitoring of vital signs is essential as they are primary
indicators of an individual’s physical well-being. These vital signs include: Pulse rate Blood
pressure, Body temperature, Breathing rate, Brain wave sensor.
The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a simple test that measures brain waves. The EEG is
used in the evaluation of brain disorders. Most commonly it is used to show the type and location
of the activity in the brain during a seizure. It also is used to evaluate people who are having
problems associated with brain function. These problems might include confusion, coma, tumors,
& long-term difficulties with thinking or memory, or weakening of specific parts of the body
(such as weakness associated with a stroke.) An EEG is also used to determine brain death. It may
be used to prove that someone on life-support equipment has no chance of recovery. An EEG is a
painless and mostly passive test in which the patient rests in a comfortable position with 20-30
electrodes placed at various spots around the scalp. The electrodes do not carry a current to the
scalp; instead they only read the electronic currents coming from the brain.
Medical measurements and clinical trials are often carried out in controlled lab settings –
severely limiting the realism and duration of such studies. Our goal is henceforth to design a
portable medical kit for unobtrusive and highly accurate profiling of body parameters over weeks
in realistic environments. One example application is monitoring the impact of sleep deprivation
on periodic processes in the human body known as circadian rhythms, which requires highly
accurate profiling of body temperature in the human body over weeks with real-time feedback to a
remote medic. We analyze the requirements on a body sensor network for such applications and
highlight the need for self-organizing behavior such as adaptive sampling to ensure energy
efficiency and thus longevity, adaptive communication strategies, self testing, automatic
compensation for environmental conditions, or automatic recording of a diary of activities. As a
first step towards this goal, we design and build a prototype of such a non-invasive monitoring
system for accurate real time feedback to the medic. Through the design, parameterization and
calibration of an active measurement subsystem .We report results from two preliminary trials
regarding the impact of circadian rhythms and mental activity on skin temperature, indicating that
our tool could indeed become a valuable asset for medical research. Our goal is to support
medical research by providing a miniaturized system that collects precise health report.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of developing this project is:
 To develop an portable medical kit which includes EEG, ECG and Temperature sensor.
 To make a cost effective kit to solve the problems of doctor in remote places and make it
easy to carry for the doctors where ever they go.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
In present system it is costly to buy the large medical equipment’s like ECG machines and also
have it fixed at a single place. The number of patients in remote area’s are also less. But the total
deaths due to lack of proper medical treatment is high when taken as a whole into account in the
country.
SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
The solution to the above problem is to provide doctors with a Portable Medical Kit with
EEG, ECG and Temperature sensors which provides a detailed report on the patient with accurate
results in a cost effective way. Also provides the expected diseases based on the overall analysis
of sensor data.

LITERATURE SURVEY
Classification of EEG Signals in a Brain-Computer Interface System was proposed by
Erik Andreas Larsen. This paper investigates and explores the possibilities that lies within the
domain of Brain-Computer Interfaces, using consumer friendly equipment that have recently
become available on the public market. The field of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) is a driving
force forutilizing electroencephalography technology (EEG), which is the process of recording
brain activity from the scalp using electrodes (See chapter 3). In the past, the main focus have
been about developing applications in a medical context, helping paralyzed or disabled patients to
interact with the external world (Plass-Oude Bos et al., 2010), by mapping brain signals to human
cognitive and/or sensor motor functions.

Dry and Noncontact EEG Sensors for Mobile Brain–Computer Interfaces was proposed by
Yu Mike Chi, Member, IEEE, Yu-Te Wang, Yijun Wang, Christoph Maier, Member, IEEE,
Tzyy-Ping Jung, Senior Member, IEEE, and Gert Cauwenberghs, Fellow, IEEE. Dry and
noncontact electroencephalographic (EEG)electrodes, which do not require gel or even direct
scalp coupling, have been considered as an enabler of practical, real-world, brain–computer
interface (BCI) platforms. This papers study compares wet electrodes to dry and through hair,
noncontact electrodes within a steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) BCI paradigm. The
construction of a dry contact electrode, featuring fingered contact posts and active buffering
circuitry is presented. Additionally, the development of a new, noncontact, capacitive electrode
that utilizes a custom integrated, high-impedance analog front-end is introduced. Offline tests on
10 subjects characterize the signal quality from the different electrodes and demonstrate that
acquisition of small amplitude, SSVEP signals is possible, even though hair using the new
integrated noncontact sensor. Online BCI experiments demonstrate that the information transfer
rate (ITR) with the dry electrodes is comparable to that of wet electrodes, completely without the
need for gel or other conductive media. In addition, data from the noncontact electrode, operating
on the top of hair, show a maximum ITR in excess of 19 bits/min at 100% accuracy (versus 29.2
bits/min for wet electrodes and 34.4 bits/min for dry electrodes), a level that has never been
demonstrated before. The results of these experiments show that both dry and noncontact
electrodes, with further development, may become a viable tool for both future mobile BCI and
general EEG applications.

Accurate Temperature Measurements for Medical Research using Body Sensor Networks
proposed by Carlo Alberto Boano_, Matteo Lasagni_‡, Kay R¨omer_, and Tanja Lange† Medical
measurements and clinical trials are often carried out in controlled lab settings – severely limiting
the realism and duration of such studies. The goal of this paper is hence forthto design a body
sensor network for unobtrusive and highly accurate profiling of body parameters over weeks in
realistic environments. One example application is monitoring the impact of sleep deprivation on
periodic processes in the human body known as circadian rhythms, which requires highly accurate
profiling of skin temperature across the human body over weeks with real-time feedback to a
remote medic. This study analyzes the requirements on a body sensor network for such
applications and high light the need for self-organizing behavior such as adaptive sampling to
ensure energy efficiency and thus longevity, adaptive communication strategies, self testing,
automatic compensation for environmental conditions, or automatic recording of a diary of
activities. As a first step towards this goal, they have designed and built a prototype of such a non-
invasive wearable wireless monitoring system for accurate body temperature measurements and
real time feedback to the medic. Through the design, parameterization, and calibration of an
active measurement subsystem, accuracy of 0.02◦C over the typical body temperature range of
16-42◦C is obtained. The report results from two preliminary trials regarding the impact of
circadian rhythms and mental activity on skin temperature, indicating that our tool could indeed
become a valuable asset for medical research.
PROPOSED SYSTEM

TEMPERAT BRAINWAVE
URE SENSOR
SENSOR (EEG)

ECG BLUETOOH
SENSOR ARDUINO UNO MODULE

LCD
MONITOR MONITOR

LIMITING SWITCH

CONCLUSION
The portable medical kit measures the body temperature, ECG waves and the brain waves. It
develops a detailed report. This system is simple and cost effective. It can be configured with
available resources in the country. Detailed simulation, feasibility study and experimentation is
required to optimize the system and reduce the possibilities of an error in the report.