RadarHeart: Non-Contact 60 GHz Smart Heartbeat Monitoring System

Imagine measuring a person’s heartbeat without any wires, electrodes, or chest straps – just by using invisible millimeter-wave radar waves. This project leverages a 60 GHz radar module to capture tiny chest wall micro-movements caused by heart contractions and breathing cycles, converting them into accurate heart rate data in real time.

Students working on this project will get hands-on experience with cutting-edge radar sensing, signal processing, and AI-driven biomedical interpretation – skills highly demanded in healthcare IoT, wearable-free monitoring, and smart medical devices industries.

🔹 Why it’s powerful for students:

• Builds expertise in millimeter-wave sensing (60 GHz radar) – an emerging domain.

• Integrates IoT + AI for live vitals streaming and anomaly detection.

• Adds serious resume value for placements in AIoT, healthcare startups, and biomedical R&D labs.

• Useful for academic projects, hackathons, and even research publications in non-contact health monitoring.

🔹 Working Principle

• The 60 GHz radar transmits low-power signals that bounce off the chest.

• Microscopic motion caused by heartbeat (≈0.2–2 mm) and breathing modulates the reflected signal.

• Advanced DSP + ML models filter out noise (like body movements).

• The system outputs real-time heart rate and can log anomalies (arrhythmia, abnormal pulse).

🔹 Applications

• Contactless patient monitoring in hospitals.

• Elderly fall-prevention and health check at homes.

• Driver health monitoring in smart vehicles.

• Sports and fitness analytics without wearables.