Meet the Life Data Link Monitor Designed to Combat COVID-19
https://www.electronics-lab.com/meet-the-life-data-link-monitor-designed-to-combat-covid-19/
Covid-19 has inspired hundreds of health-related electronics projects from ventilators whose shortage was the initial worry for health professionals across the world to “basic” vital monitoring which was discovered to be very useful along the line. One of many projects which had remarkable engineering quality and huge potential in terms of application is the Life […]
Multi-sensor SpO2 and Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) reference design with Bluetooth® 5
https://www.electronics-lab.com/multi-sensor-spo2-heart-rate-monitor-hrm-reference-design-bluetooth-5/
This reference design enables a wearable, optimized saturation of peripheral capillary oxygen (SpO2) and multi-sensor, multi-wavelength optical heart rate monitor (HRM). It uses AFE4420 device, which is a single-chip, bio-sensing front end for photoplethysmography (PPG) measurements. It supports up to four switching light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and up to four photodiodes to enable signal acquisition of […]
Digital RGB / Ambient Light, Proximity and Photoplethysmography Sensor
https://www.electronics-lab.com/digital-rgb-ambient-light-proximity-photoplethysmography-sensor/
Integrated Device Technology (IDT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation introduced the OB1203, a fully integrated all-in-one biosensor module for mobile and wearable devices. The OB1203 is the smallest sensor of its kind. In addition to non-invasive measurement of heart rate and blood oxygen levels, the OB1203 module integrates additional sensors needed in […]
AMS AS7024 Vital Signs Sensor Module
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ams-as7024-vital-signs-sensor-module/
New Vital Signs Sensor module enables highly accurate, fast and convenient cuffless 24/7 blood pressure, heart-rate (HRM), heart-rate variability (HRV), and electrocardiograms (ECG) measurement New Vital Signs Sensor module enables highly accurate, fast and convenient cuffless 24/7 blood pressure, heart-rate (HRM), heart-rate variability (HRV), and electrocardiograms (ECG) measurement. The new module integrates all necessary hardware […]
Heart-rate monitor on a small OLED display with MicroPython
https://www.electronics-lab.com/heart-rate-monitor-small-oled-display-micropython/
By Martin Fitzpatrick @ martinfitzpatrick.name show us how to build the micro display heart-rate monitor. Pulse sensors have become popular due to their use in health-monitors like the Fitbit. The sensors used are cheap, simple and pretty reliable at getting a reasonable indication of heart rate in daily use. They work by sensing the change […]
MediaTek Sensio, is a 6-in-1 biosensor module for smartphones
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mediatek-sensio-6-1-biosensor-module-smartphones/
Smartphones in recent times have contributed to the growth of the medical sensing industries with a major success in the usage of a smartphone camera and flash to detect heart rate. Specialized Apps installed on the phone can use the phone inbuilt camera and flash to read an individual heart rate with high accuracy but […]
Educational Biomed Shield for Arduino 101
https://www.electronics-lab.com/educational-biomed-shield-arduino-101/
Orlando Hoilett has built his new biomedical Arduino 101 shield: Biomed Shield, in order to allow students, educators, and hobbyists to learn about bio-medicine by monitoring heart rate, temperature, and other physiological metrics. To build this shield he used the following components: AD5933 MLX90614 Microchip Rail-to-Rail Input/Output Dual Op-Amp MAX30101: a specialized integrated circuit that is able […]
Ambient light sensor for heart rate sensing in wearables
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ambient-light-sensor-heart-rate-sensing-wearables/
Everlight (New Taipei City, Taiwan) has introduced an ambient light sensor that operates at 550nm with a very low signal calculation failure rate and a high current efficiency. An anticipated application for this device is heart rate signal detection in wearable electronics for the health and fitness sector. by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: Based on […]
A $20 Heart Rate Module For Health-Tech Projects
https://www.electronics-lab.com/20-heart-rate-module-health-tech-projects/
Heart rate monitoring is a common procedure for most of health related projects. Therefore, producing sensors modules and circuit boards for such tasks will facilitate and push forward the development of new health-tech projects. Maxim Integrated, an analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits manufacturer, has developed a new module for measuring heart rate and pulse oximetry. […]
Easy Pulse mikro – MikroBus form factor pulse sensor
https://www.electronics-lab.com/easy-pulse-mikro-mikrobus-form-factor-pulse-sensor/
Raj @ embedded-lab.com has designed a new version of his Easy Pulse Sensor. This revision is an add-on board in mikroBus form factor, which enables easy integration with mikroElektronika‘s numerous development boards. It also operates on the principle of transmittance photoplethysmography applied to a fingertip using infrared sensors. Easy Pulse mikro provides all necessary instrumentation and […]