FYP REPORT

For FYP sem 1, I need to submit the first three chapter of my FYP Report. The first chapter is Introduction. Below shows the contents needed in this chapter:
1.1 Introduction of chapter
1.2 Project Background
1.3 Project Statement
1.4 Objective
1.5 Scope of Project / Limitation
1.6 Summary of Chapter

The second chapter is Literature Review. The second chapter contents are:
2.1 History
      2.1.1 Previous Work
      2.1.2 Present Work
2.2 Review of History
2.3 Summary

Third chapter is Methodology and below are the contents needed:
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Block Diagram
      3.2.1 Explanation
3.3 Hardware & Development
3.4 Software Development
3.5 Summary

All the chapter above are still in process of making and will be submitted in this semester.

PROGRESS REPORT

Subject: Progress Report (August 1until November 8, 2012.) Development of Graphical User Interfacing using LabVIEW for analysis of the Photoplethsmography signal.

Introduction:

The main goal of this engineering project is to communicate the Photoplethsography sensor with GUI using LabVIEW to detect blood volume changes in the microvascular bed of tissue to measure temperature body and heart beat. This proposal and designation is analyzing the performance of photoplethsmography sensor, which interface with LabVIEW.

Work Completed from August 1 until November 8, 2012:

I have done many researches for my Final Year Project. After discussing on the nature of the project and the objectives, I have come an understanding about the project. So the work plan had been create to guide the whole project progress.

I try to do the progress of my progress as much as I could do. I have plan very details about work and task I need to do later on. I have planned to find out how the photoplethsmography sensor is working. In addition, I have to make some research how do the photoplethsmography sensor and LabVIEW are interfaced in order to get the constant and best result. From now, I have learned basic technique that I can apply in my project.

Problem Encountered:

        

    For the input finger pulse probe and the photoplethsmography sensor, both of it need to be related with each other, but the work for it is still in research and the method for it also still in research so that I can use the most efficient and accurate method. The understanding of LabVIEW for creating the interface with photoplethsmography sensor is still insufficient and need some time to study, on how to use it for output display. I also have to know what kind of port will be the output serial, analog, digital or etc.

Conclusion:

There are several scopes of work for this project; study and identify on how the photoplethsmography sensor can provide an information about the level of temperature of body of a patient by using a non-invasive method, which is photoplethsmography sensor.

PRESENTATION WEEK

This is the project presentation week, for FYP sem 1. All FYP sem 1 students will be at Gemilang Hall starting 2 pm until 5 pm. Each student have two assessors to evaluate their project presentation. For my presentation, I was evaluated by two assessors, first Sir Syamsul Adlan and second Madam Zaridah. I will present the best as I can do without any problems and thanks a lot to our assessors by making our presentation goes smooth and easy.

PRESENTATION PREPARATION

In week 12, all FYP sem 1 students will have their project presentation at Gemilang Hall. The purpose of this presentation was to tell the assessor/evaluator about the project ideas and the objective of producing the project. As a preparation for the presentation, I need to make the presentation slides. The slides must contain the introduction of the project, problem statement, objective, project limits, the work plan and also the methodology. I made the slides and discuss with my supervisor/adviser about it. There were some correction and addition needed to be made before the presentation slides ready to be presented in front of the evaluator.

PROGRESS 8 : BUDGET

BUDGET

Total all costing is RM250.00. All the costing and budget above are the estimation only and all the item and components are not finalize at all because there is only estimation and maybe involve with other component and other circuit or any upgrading to the project.

PROGRESS 7 : WORK PLAN

The starting point of this project is the literature review and theoretical study. But, these actions are continuous as new information must be gathered from time to time in order to proceed with this project.

After having an overview of the component to include in this project, the suitable components were selected based on the scope and limitation of this project. Hardware implementations begin after the components were available. After that, the whole system was integrated for testing and optimization before the real demo and presentation to the panel of the final year project.

The time frame allocated for this research study is 10 months. It will start in July 2012 and is projected to be completed in May 2013. The Gantt chart for the project and its milestone are shown as in Table 1.

Development of Graphical User Interfacing using LabVIEW for analysis of the Photoplethsmography signal configurations for data centre application will be build to enables the community to visualize the impact and application of the proposed methods in determining the best solutions in designing it with respect to reliability and cost. This project will be presented in the FYP Presentation Day.

PROGRESS 6 : OBJECTIVE & BENEFIT/CONTRIBUTIONS

           OBJECTIVE

              The main objective of this project is to measure the temperature body by using graphical

               user interfacing (GUI) in Labview. Besides that, there have other objectives 

               which are related each other as shown as below:

1.      To detect pulsatile blood volume changes in the micro vascular bed of tissue from human body.

2.      To interface the PPG sensor to the computer using Labview.

3.      To save the acquire data for further processing and future reference.

BENEFIT/CONTRIBUTIONS

Benefit/contribution for using LabVIEW:

1.      Compiled code speed and ability to create distributable EXEs and DLLs.

2.      Powerful, flexible, and scalable design (open, connects to external libraries and third-party tools)  

3.      Easy to learn, use, maintain, and upgrade (intuitive graphical programming, using graphical constructs)

4.      One tool for design, prototyping and deployment

5.      Multidisciplinary use (same easy graphical programming language for different applications and domain experts in different disciplines in science and engineering)

6.      Tight software-hardware integration (supports wide variety of data acquisition and embedded control devices)

7.      Multicore-ready design (intrinsic parallelism) and support for different hardware acceleration technologies (DSPs, FPGAs, and GPUs as coprocessors)

8.      Multiplatform (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, RTOSs)

Benefit/contribution of using photoplethsmography:

1.      The only method to measure absolute changes in blood volume accurately in the extremities is by using chamber-plethysmography.

2.      Recently PPG is widely used in the medical equipment for patient monitoring and in laboratories for research and physiological studies.

3.      Small, reliable, low-cost and simple-to-use noninvasive (cardiovascular) assessment techniques.

4.      Advances in opto-electronics and clinical instrumentation.