Wireless Communication System for Pervasive Health-information Monitoring

Abstract

As many areas of the medical field are becoming more and more interested in telemedicine and outpatient care, we focused on the monitoring of health as it that could benefit greatly from body sensor network (BSN) technology. We explore some of the hardware sensor interface involved in monitoring procedure into a portable system, specifically for system integration with a smartphone. There is a contribution of our hardware interface with an Android-based smartphone/tablet: using dedicated embedded sensor nodes have a low compact volume as one of the design objectives. They have limited processing and memory capacities. Thus, special operating systems such as TinyOS and companion programming languages have been developed. Due to the low-cost and low-volume features, the future widespread use of such nodes is expected. A Bluetooth enabled Android device for initiating our monitoring mobile application and Bluetooth enabled sensors would provide the input to the Android device. We have developed an Android app; the communication system can be potentially used by a remote monitoring setup without a presence of a medical profession, and even streamline in-patient monitoring process with actual precision for the medical measurements.