Health Status Monitor Based on Embedded Photoplethysmography and Smart Phone

Author

Postolache, O. ; Girao, Pedro Silva ; Sinha, P. ; Anand, A. ; Postolache, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun./DEEC-IST, Lisbon

fYear

2008

fDate

9-10 May 2008

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

43

Abstract

The paper presents a wireless personal area network (WPAN) including two Bluetooth enabled measuring nodes that delivers information about some physiological parameters extracted from plethysmography signals and provides information of indoor air temperature and relative humidity. The data from the node of physiological and air parameter measurements are received by a smart phone device through Bluetooth communication. J2ME developed software assures Bluetooth device detection and identification, data reading, primary processing, data storage and automatic alarm generation. Critical health status associated with the assessed person leads to an automatic SMS generation. Elements related to heart rate variability estimation are also included.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Bluetooth; Java; biomedical communication; medical information systems; patient monitoring; personal area networks; plethysmography; wireless sensor networks; Bluetooth communication; J2ME software; WPAN; automatic SMS generation; embedded photoplethysmography; health status monitor; heart rate variability estimation; physiological parameter; smart phone; wireless personal area network; Area measurement; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Data mining; Humidity measurement; Memory; Plethysmography; Smart phones; Temperature; Wireless personal area networks; biomedical smart sensors; homeostasis monitoring; smart phone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Measurements and Applications, 2008. MeMeA 2008. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1937-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1938-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMEA.2008.4542994

Filename

4542994