A Wireless Physiological Signal Monitoring System with Integrated

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Technologies

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SANTOSH BHARADWAJ REDDY
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Abstract—This paper proposes a wireless patient monitoring (WiFi)

system which integrates Bluetooth and WiFi wireless
technologies. A wireless portable multi-parameter device
was designated to acquire physiological signals and transmit
them to
a local server via Bluetooth wireless technology. Four kinds of
monitor units were designed to communicate via the WiFi
wireless technology, including a local monitor unit, a
control center, mobile devices (personal digital assistant;
PDA), and a web page. The use of various monitor units is
intending to meet different medical requirements for different
medical personnel. This system was demonstrated to
promote the mobility and flexibility for both the patients and
the medical personnel, which further improves the quality of
health care.

I. INTRODUCTION

With the increase of senior population in the human

society, continuous health monitoring becomes
progressively more important in the health care facilities.
The medical personnel need to monitor the patient’s status in
case of an emergency but would not desire to increase the
number of room visits. As
a result, there is a demand of a physiological
monitoring system which enables the medical personnel to
monitor the patient’s status remotely and accurately.
The fast development of wireless technologies and the
increases in communication bandwidth facilitate the
developments of e-health and telemedical systems
[1]. Wireless and portable patient monitoring systems not
only increase the mobility of patients and medical
personnel but also improve the quality of health care
[2]. In the developments of remote patient monitoring
systems, many researchers have focused on
transmitting physiological signals via the wireless
local area network (WLAN) technology [3] and the
Bluetooth wireless technology [4]. Some researchers have
used the personal digital assistant (PDA) to acquire and
transmit physiological signals from patient’s room to the
central management unit in the hospital using the wireless
technologies [3, 4].
Bluetooth wireless technology is an open specification that
enables low-power and short-range wireless connections.
WLAN technology is also known as WiFi wireless
technology, which is a progressive open specification
that enables longer-range connections. Few, if any, attempts
have been made to integrate the wireless local area network
technology and the Bluetooth wireless technology to enable the medical personnel to monitor the patient’s status
telemonitor patients continuously. In this paper, we remotely.
propose a wireless patient monitoring system which
integrates the WiFi wireless technology and the The mobile unit has several requirements that should
Bluetooth wireless technology. Through the portable be followed: 1) it should be portable and lightweight; 2)
Bluetooth wireless physiological signal acquisition it should be able to acquire multi-physiological signals;
device, patients can move freely in the room and the 3) it should support wireless communication, which
medical personnel can monitor the patient’s health enables patients active freely.
status remotely through the control center, the mobile
device or the web page via the WiFi wireless
technology. In the consequence, the physiological
monitoring system becomes more efficient and mobile.

II. METHODOLOGY

A. System Overview
The objective of this study is to design and
implement a wireless physiological monitoring
system for monitoring vital signs remotely to
promote the mobility of both the patients and the
medical personnel. Fig. 1 shows the architecture
of the proposed system. The proposed system
consists mainly of two parts: 1) the mobile unit, which
is set up on the patient’s side to acquire the patient’s Fig.1. Architecture of the proposed system
physiological signals, and 2) the monitor units, which

.
 Several monitor units are des
system to meet the medical pe
requirements. These units include
control center monitor, a web p
mobile device monitor units. With
capacity of the mobile units, th
monitor the patient’s physiologic
patient’s file from different monito
have several requirements that s
should be convenient for the medic
should be able to monitor the phy
waveforms of the remote patient
needed to integrate with certain m
patients’ signals and files.

B. Mobile Unit
The main function of the mob
situated at the nurse’s station, w
personnel to monitor the patient’s
the patient’s information, such as v
information, and doctor’s diagnosis
The mobile device monitor a
personal digital assistant (PDA). W
personnel can monitor the patient’
Through the web page, doctors
status and check records with any r
These two monitor units increase t
for the medical personnel to mon
almost anywhere once they can con

III. RESUL

A prototype of the proposed sys

automatically and produce the we
the patient’s status. Fig. 9 shows th
page, which is similar to what can
monitor unit. The web page moni
need to monitor the patients’ statu
where an internet service is accessi
extends the range of this moni
anywhere, although network delays

IV. DISCUSS

In this paper, a prototype of a wi

monitoring system using Bluetoot
has been proposed. For a wireless
system, there are some points that
discussed.
Document By
SANTOSH BHARADWAJ REDDY
Email: help@matlabcodes.com
Engineeringpapers.blogspot.com
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