Real time (remote) ECG and heart rate monitoring

Heart rate is becoming more than just the means by which a human is declared dead or alive, to stretch the definition a little. Screening athletes before all major sporting events is becoming an almost common practice in the professional sporting environment. Athletics trainers and trainees themselves are showing an intensive interest in the ECG and information based upon the ECG of an athlete while training. Information such as heart rate, pulse width, strength and heart muscle stress give enormous insight when constructing a useful and potential driven training program. Comparing the latter data from practice sessions with data retrieved during a sporting event can help in adapting the training program and facilitate in the growth of a professional athlete. Bio-kinetics and sport science are but two other fields where the real time ECG and heart rate information of an athlete is of utmost importance. Having this information at hand in real-time assists the trainer in making an informed judgment of telling if an athlete is strained too much or can be driven harder. The health of an athlete overall is one of the most important aspects in the trainer-trainee relationship, especially taking into account the level of professionalism in the sporting environment today. This paper discusses an engineering design taking the sporting world one step forward in protecting athletes by training them at safe optimal levels. This provides sport scientists, trainers, and bio-kinetic personnel a revolutionary source of information, a real time (remote) ECG monitoring system