title: J2ME and smart phones as platform for a Bluetooth body area network for patient-telemonitoring.
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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica, University of Málaga, Spain. mjmoron@uma.es
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Morón
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Luque
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Botella
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Cuberos
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Casilari
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Díaz-Estrella
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation; D017216:Telemedicine