ECE 117 Mini-Project Design Proposal

Blood Pressure Monitor using Oscillometric Method

Avanzado, Karen Astrud Eliza D., Nario, Patricia Verone, Ramos, Carlos Luigi R.
I.

Initial Choice of Sensor

Various types of pressure sensors can be used in measuring the air pressure from the arm cuff using in
blood pressure monitoring. Sample projects over the internet made use of piezoresistive silicon
transducers that acts as low-cost pressure sensors. One of the sensor used is the MP3V5050, differential
and gauge pressure sensor with the following characteristics:

Upon checking the availability with local electronics shop, the available model in E-Gizmo is the
OMRON 2SMPP-02 Gauge Pressure Sensor which can also meet the standard blood pressures (up to
120mmHg = 16kPa).

II.

Online References
A. Pressure Sensor Datasheet
Internet: OMRON 2SMPP-02
https://www.omron.com/ecb/products/sensor/special/mems/pdf/AN-2SMPP02-01EN_r1.pdf
https://www.omron.com/ecb/products/pdf/en-2smpp-02.pdf
B. Sensor Circuitry
Lopez, Santiago. Blood Pressure Monitor Fundamentals and Design Internet:
http://www.nxp.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN4328.pdf?tid=AMdlDR. Dec 2012.
C. Blood Pressure Measurement Operating Principles
K.S.Thangavelu. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor Machine Internet:
http://www.frontline-electronics.com/contest/htmlcontest/SubmittedProjects.htm. 2008.

III.

Schematics and Expected Waveforms

Complete Circuit Diagram

For this mini-project, only the sensor block of the diagram will be implemented, powered by a 5V DC
Supply. The function of the other blocks is to control the operation of the arm cuff and to digitized and
output the computed blood pressure. For this project, the inflating and deflating of the arm cuff will be
done manually.

Sensor Circuit Diagram

The BP measurement circuit diagram is convert the pressure variations into the electrical form later it
amplified to a specified gain and then it filter to separate the cuff pressure and Oscillometric signal. These
two signal are given to Microcontroller section for Digital convertion.

*FUNCTION OF BLOCKS*

Expected Output from the Sensor Circuit

The figure below shows the fluctuations observed in an occluding cuff as the pressure is initially raised
just above the systolic pressure and then gradually dropped to nearly low at that point the fluctuations are
disappears. The second graph shows the cardiac synchronous oscillations present in the cuff pressure
which, as indicated above, vary with the cuff pressure. The graph shows the pulse are started at smaller
amplitudes when the cuff pressure reduced above or nearly equal to systolic pressure and it stopped just
below the diastolic pressure. These fluctuation are used to calculate the blood pressure.

Ps is the pressure above Pm at which As/Am = 0.55

Pd is the pressure below Pm at which Ad/Am = 0.85

IV.

Test and Development Plan