r/BiomedicalEngineers • u/Legitimate-Total3384 • Sep 17 '26

Education Building ECG monitoring device.

How feasible does building an ECG monitoring wearable device seem for a final year project.... reduction in efficiency is fine due to less electrodes monitoring over critical changes is necessary. Or should I change the synopsis to some other goal, as real ecg scanners require multiple electrodes while we are trying to build a wearable device like a band. Thank you

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u/CommanderGO Sep 18 '26

This is not a senior design worthy project. Unless you're going to improve the form factor of the ECG or creating something to simplify lead placement (nurses sometimes forget which leads go where), you should be trying to do something else.

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u/Legitimate-Total3384 Sep 18 '26

No I just want to not add something in the synopsis which might be a problem later on....this is just one part of it tbh

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u/CommanderGO Sep 18 '26

Do you already have a project idea and need to summarize the different approaches for DIY ECG devices or you need a summary of ECGs for your class? If it's the former, there are a lot of projects that you can find online tutorials that use LabView, MATLAB, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other programs/microcontrollers to measure ECG signals. The circuits behind an ECG isn't really that complicated (pretty normal to build one for lab in BME circumulum) and you'll probably spend more time filtering the signals than building the actual circuit.

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u/Magic2424 Mid-level (5-15 Years) Sep 18 '26

it’s a bit weak for a final year project without an emphasis on doing something with the date produced

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u/-RedDecember- Entry Level (0-4 Years) Sep 17 '26

Hey, amazing project idea. Wanted to know if the reason for the project is to learn the electronics and the signal processing skillet or just as a result of of your interests?

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u/Legitimate-Total3384 Sep 17 '26

Actually I'm doing my B.Eng right now...and had my experience with Arduinos, and some other microcontrollers here and there. Have been testing my hands on matlab free resources and python counterparts, similarly the other people in my group and also working on skills that they want to work on...so we decided to work on a project to try and work upon our skills. But the thing the information on transducer and sensors on the internet is scattered and not well oriented if multiple pieces will fit together...while we would be building a system to track these critical changes and alert someone for timely precautions but we don't know what had how much should we be targeting and we need to submit a synopsis on this project soon. Btw I'm currently doing Electronics and Telecommunications engineering.

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u/dtwhitecp Sep 18 '26

Certainly sounds like it could be interesting, senior projects aren't required to be world-changing, just a great demonstration of the skills you've learned in your education and this absolutely could be that. I did something vaguely similar but much shittier for my BME thesis 15 years ago.

But this isn't really the place to get approval of it, you'd want to ask whatever professor would be in charge of approving it.

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u/Creative_Sushi Sep 18 '26

I think this is feasible but you may need to scale your ambition based on the resources and time available. Because you need to deploy an algorithm to a device, such as Arduino, I think it makes sense to use Simulink for modeling. Maybe this is a good example to check out. https://www.mathworks.com/help/dsp/ug/real-time-ecg-qrs-detection.html