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An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status
Published on: February 3, 2022
J2ME and smart phones as platform for a Bluetooth body area network for patient-telemonitoring
M J Morón1, J R Luque, A A Botella
1Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica, University of Málaga, Spain. mjmoron@uma.es
Abstract:
A prototype of a system based on a Bluetooth Body Area Network (BAN) for continuous and wireless telemonitoring of patients' biosignals is presented. Smart phones and Java (J2ME) have been selected as platform to build a central node in patients' BAN. A midlet running in the smart phone compiles information about patient's location and health status. The midlet encrypts and retransmits it to the server through 802.11 or GPRS/UMTS. Besides when an alerting condition is detected, the midlet generates a MMS and a SMS to be sent to patients' relatives and to physician, respectively. Additionally, the system provides to physicians the possibility of configuring BAN's parameters remotely, from a PC or even a smart phone.
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