Can I use IR Transmitter/Receiver for heart beat detecting?

Question

Specifically, I want to know if the KY-022 module and KY-005 module can be used for heart beat detecting according to this tutorial?

KY-005:

KY-022:

If so, can you please explain to me how can I achieve such thing with respect to the following:
1- Is there any kind of synchronization between transmitter/receiver?
2- How to get a stable analog value from the receiver?
3- The Correlation between Heart beat rate and the obtained values?

providing circuit sketch will be very helpful but not necessary.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No, you cannot. The sensor you link to has a circuit which attempts to detect IR light modulated at a specific frequency, and produces a digital output. For a heartbeat sensor you need an analog output to feed into far more sophisticated signal processing - effectively the built-in processing gets in the way and means you cannot use it for this purpose.

Additionally, sensors of this type typically have an automatic gain control which means that they desensitize when subjected to continuous signal - they are designed for sources like remote controls where the modulation is itself pulsed on an off in small fractions of a second, so they interpret constant modulated light as noise and soon turn off their output.