Article
On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks
Author/s | Morón Fernández, María José
Luque Giráldez, José Rafael Casilari Pérez, Eduardo |
Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores |
Publication Date | 2014 |
Deposit Date | 2020-07-04 |
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Abstract | This paper evaluates and characterizes the technical performance of medical
wireless personal area networks (WPANs) that are based on smartphones. For this purpose,
a prototype of a health telemonitoring system is ... This paper evaluates and characterizes the technical performance of medical wireless personal area networks (WPANs) that are based on smartphones. For this purpose, a prototype of a health telemonitoring system is presented. The prototype incorporates a commercial Android smartphone, which acts as a relay point, or “gateway”, between a set of wireless medical sensors and a data server. Additionally, the paper investigates if the conventional capabilities of current commercial smartphones can be affected by their use as gateways or “Holters” in health monitoring applications. Specifically, the profiling has focused on the CPU and power consumption of the mobile devices. These metrics have been measured under several test conditions modifying the smartphone model, the type of sensors connected to the WPAN, the employed Bluetooth profile (SPP (serial port profile) or HDP (health device profile)), the use of other peripherals, such as a GPS receiver, the impact of the use of theWi-Fi interface or the employed method to encode and forward the data that are collected from the sensors. |
Funding agencies | Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC). España |
Project ID. | TEC2009-13763-C02-01 |
Citation | Morón Fernández, M.J., Luque Giráldez, J.R. y Casilari Pérez, E. (2014). On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks. Sensors, 14 (1), 575-594. |
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