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For my project I  have built and programmed a functioning health monitor. It consists of an Arduino microcomputing board, a pulse rate and oxygen content sensor, a temperature sensor and a few other parts to put everything together. The monitor should measure and show your heart rate in bpm, the blood oxygen saturation, and temperature of your body, all with a touch of the sensor. In my case, my product worked perfectly at some points, but at other times the pulse rate sensor stopped working. I had to contact the sensor company multiple times to get tech support, and we tried many different things to fix the situation, and I had to go through lots of trial and error to get the monitor to function properly, I l almost had to to buy a sensor which did not fit well with my purpose of making an affordable monitor. Even though my monitor only worked for short times (I have provided a video of how it should function), these steps are still accurate and can work better with a better sensor. This project gave me a great learning experience that I will never forget, and I know so many things about Arduino, sensors and coding.

It’s pretty simple to read the data and understand the monitor's functions and recordings. If you know what

the normal readings for each measurement is, you can easily identify when something is high or low. That is when you know that you should see a doctor.

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PULSE RATE: A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute. 

<could mean you are very fit, or you could have                     Bradycardia

>could have Tachycardia or your oxygen-starved myocardial cells can die, leading to a heart attack

 

BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION: A normal healthy person should be able to achieve normal blood oxygen saturation levels (SpO2) of 94% to 99%. 

< could have hypoxia, and can be a sign of lung disease or sleep apnea

>usually only happens with people who use supplemental oxygen

 

TEMPERATURE: normal body temperature is around 37 degrees celsius or 98.6 degrees farenheit. 

<could have Hypothermia

>could have a fever

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