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    This circuit uses skin conductivity variations to measure stress levels. It has touch pads that sense voltage changes from the skin which are amplified and sent to an IC. The IC drives LEDs and a buzzer to indicate stress levels - more LEDs turn on and the buzzer sounds for higher stress. It is small enough to wear on the wrist and gives a visual and audio warning when stress is high.

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    Stress Meter

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    This circuit uses skin conductivity variations to measure stress levels. It has touch pads that sense voltage changes from the skin which are amplified and sent to an IC. The IC drives LEDs and a buzzer to indicate stress levels - more LEDs turn on and the buzzer sounds for higher stress. It is small enough to wear on the wrist and gives a visual and audio warning when stress is high.

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    This circuit uses skin conductivity variations to measure stress levels. It has touch pads that sense voltage changes from the skin which are amplified and sent to an IC. The IC drives LEDs and a buzzer to indicate stress levels - more LEDs turn on and the buzzer sounds for higher stress. It is small enough to wear on the wrist and gives a visual and audio warning when stress is high.

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    This circuit uses skin conductivity variations to measure stress levels. It has touch pads that sense voltage changes from the skin which are amplified and sent to an IC. The IC drives LEDs and a buzzer to indicate stress levels - more LEDs turn on and the buzzer sounds for higher stress. It is small enough to wear on the wrist and gives a visual and audio warning when stress is high.

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    CIRCUIT

    IDEAS

    STRESS
    METER

    D. MOHAN KUMAR

    his stress monitor lets you


    assess your emotional pain. If
    the stress is very high, it gives
    visual indication through a light-emitting diode (LED) display along with a

    cuit. The circuit is very sensitive and


    detects even a minute voltage variation across the touch pads.
    The circuit comprises signal amplifier and analogue display sections.
    Voltage variations from the sensing
    pads are amplified by transistor BC548

    Fig. 1: Circuit of the stress meter

    warning beep. The gadget is small


    enough to be worn around the wrist.
    The gadget is based on the principle that the resistance of the skin varies in accordance with your emotional
    states. If the stress level is high the
    skin offers less resistance, and if the
    body is relaxed the skin resistance
    is
    high. The low resistance of the skin
    during high stress is due to an increase
    in the blood supply to the skin.
    This
    increases the permeability of the skin
    and hence the conductivity for electric
    current.
    This property of the skin is used
    here to measure the stress level. The
    touch pads of the stress meter sense
    the voltage variations across the touch
    pads and convey the same to the cir-

    bar mode for each increment of 125


    mV in the input.
    Here, weve used only five LEDs
    connected at pins 14 through 18 of IC1.
    LED1 glows when input pin 5 of IC1
    receives 150 mV. LED5 glows when
    the voltage rises to 650 mV and LED5
    fl ashes
    and
    piezobuzzer PZ1
    beeps
    whenthe
    stress level is high.
    Resistors R4
    and R5 and capacitor C2 form the
    flashing elements.
    Resistor R3 mainFig. 2: Display panel
    tains the LED current
    at
    around 20
    mA. Capacitor C3
    should be
    p l a c e d
    close to pin
    3 for proper
    functioning
    of the IC. Zener diode ZD1 in series
    with resistor R6 provides regulated 5V
    to the circuit.
    The circuit can be assembled on a
    small piece of perforated board. Use
    transparent 3mm LEDs and a small
    piezobuzzer for audio-visual indications. Enclose the circuit in a small
    plastic case with touch pads on the
    back side. Two self-locking straps can
    be used to tie the unit around your
    wrist.
    After tying the unit around your
    wrist (with touch pads in contact with
    the skin), slowly vary VR1 until LED1
    glows (assuming that you are in relaxed state). Adjust VR2 if the sensiFig. 3: Self-locking straps

    (T1), which is configured as a common-emitter amplifier. The base of T1


    is connected to one of the touch pads
    through resistor R1 and to the ground
    rail through potmeter VR1. By varying VR1, the sensitivity of T1 can
    be
    adjusted to the desired level. Diode D1
    maintains proper biasing of T1 and capacitor C1 keeps the voltage from the
    emitter of T1 steady.
    The amplified signal from transistor T1 is given to the input of IC
    LM3915 (IC1) through VR2. IC
    LM3915 is a monolithic integrated circuit that senses analogue voltage levels at its pin 5 and displays them
    through LEDs providing a logarithmic analogue display. It can drive up
    to ten LEDs one by one in the
    dot/

    tivity of IC1 is very high. The gadget


    is now ready for use. z

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