ProtoCentral ADS1292R ECG/respiration shield and breakout board

Dont have it yet? But one here: ADS1292R ECG/Respiration Shield for Arduino- v2 (PC-4128)

Dont have it yet? But one here: ADS1292R ECG/Respiration Breakout for Arduino- v3 (PC-4116)

The Arduino library for this product is now available in the ProtoCentral ADS1292R Arduino Library repo

Easily monitor ECG and respiration using your Arduino with this plug-in shield. The version 2 of this product adds a new SPI pin header making it compatible with newer Arduino devices including the Arduino Yun and 3.5mm connector for the electrodes. We now include the electrodes and cable also with the shield

Just plug it into an Arduino and you're ready to go. The 3.5 mm circular connector provides an easy way to connect electodes to the shield. The other end of this cable has snaps for standard ECG electrodes. We also include a pakc of 10 disposable EG electrodes. It accepts two ECG electrodes and one Driven Right Leg (DRL) electrode for common mode noise reduction.

Another interesting feature of this shield is that you can also measure the respiratory activity using the same two electrodes connected to the shield. The ADS1292R uses a method known as impedance pneumography to measure respiration using the changes in chest impedance caused during respiration.

Features:

• ADS1292R Analog Front End IC
• Onboard 3.3V voltage regulator for low noise
• Onboard logic level transalators for Arduino interface
• Prototyping area for adding addtional components

Includes:

• ADS1292R Arduino shield
• Electrode cable with 3.5mm connector and ECG electrodes connectors
• Pack of 10 disposable stick-on ECG electrodes.

Connecting the shield to your Arduino

Connect the ECG/Respiration shield to the Arduino by stacking it on top of your Arduino. This shield uses the SPI interface to communicate with the Arduino. Since this includes the ICSP header, which is used on newer Arduinos for SPI communication, this shield is also compatible newer Arduino boards such as the Arduino Yun and Due.

Wiring the Breakout to your Arduino

If you have bought the breakout the connection with the Arduino board is as follows:

Installing the Arduino libraries

Arduino library for this boards is now available at https://github.com/Protocentral/protocentral-ads1292r-arduino or from the Arduino Library Manager inside the Arduino IDe.

If you have correctly installed the libraries, the example sketeches should now be available from within Arduino at File-->Examples-->ProtoCentral ADS1292R library.

Using the ProtoCentral OpenView GUI

The GUI for visualizing the ECG and Respiration as well as parameters like Heart rate and Respiration rate is written in Processing, based on Java and is cross-compilable across platforms.

Java 8 is required on all platforms for running the processing-based GUI application. You can download Java for your platform from the Official Java website.

You can download and install ProtoCentral OpenView from here: https://github.com/Protocentral/protocentral_openview

Connecting the ECG Electrodes

A 3-electrode cable along with a standard stereo jack is provided along with the shield to connect the electrodes to the shield. The electrode input connector is highlighted in the below picture.

The other side of the electrode connector would connect to snap-on electrodes attached to the body. For testing purposes, you can use an ECG simulator to provide inputs to the board.

Warning: When connecting the electodes to the body, it is safer to disconnect the mains power source to the Arduino. For example, if you are using the Arduino along with a laptop, disconnecting the battery charger from the laptop would be a safe option.

Placing the Electrodes on the body

License Information

This product is open source!

Both, our hardware and software are open source and licensed under the following licenses:

Hardware

All hardware is released under the CERN-OHL-P v2 license.

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