Bluetooth telemedicine processor for multichannel biomedical signal transmission via mobile cellular networks.
One of the emerging issues in m-Health is how best to exploit the mobile communications technologies that are now almost globally available. The challenge is to produce a system to transmit a patient's biomedical signals directly to a hospital for monitoring or diagnosis, using an unmodified mobile telephone. The paper focuses on the design of a processor, which samples signals from sensors on the patient. It then transmits digital data over a Bluetooth link to a mobile telephone that uses the General Packet Radio Service. The modular design adopted is intended to provide a "future-proofed" system, whose functionality may be upgraded by modifying the software.
Rasid
Mohd Fadlee A
MF
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK.
Woodward
Bryan
B
D040421:Cell Phone; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*