Heartbeat identification for smartphones
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Abstract
Today’s smartphones and fitness gadgets provide a variety of apps for health monitoring. Monitoring the heartbeat has also
been proposed for use as a password, to ensure security and privacy, and this idea is currently being developed in e.g. the
Nymi wristband. As part of ongoing research, techniques have been developed to analyse the ECG signal to facilitate personalisation
of pacemaker devices, see http://www.veriware.org/bibitem.php?key=KMP14. This project aims to implement the method proposed
in the paper “Human Identification Using Heartbeat Interval Features and ECG Morphology”, Proceedings of Seventh International
Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2012), Springer, 2013. The implementation will be
evaluated using a hardware testbed to be provided. The project will suit a student interested in embedded software. For more
information about the pacemaker project see http://www.veriware.org/pacemaker.php.