Study of ECG variation in daily activity

Electrocardiogram (ECG) records electrical activity of the heart spreading through the heart muscle to make the heart contract. Recently ECG has been captured attention as biometric feature due to its uniqueness and large reliabilities for human identifications. In this study we aimed to verify the conservative ECG of human in their activities to ensure whether it is suitable to be used as biometric devices. Experiment studies involved 6 participants of which the age ranges is between 21 and 23. We test the robustness of ECG under various situation including health condition, emotional state and heart rate variation. The recorded ECG signal is forwarded for analysis using Matlab. Correlation coefficient of ECG Fourier transform is used as criterion to validate the ECG robustness. The result indicates that ECG is not stable and seems to vary with daily activity and emotional state. This will hampers ECG to be used as Biometric.