On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks
This paper evaluates and characterizes the technical performance of medicalwireless personal area networks (WPANs) that are based on smartphones. For this purpose,a prototype of a health telemonitoring system is presented. The prototype incorporates acommercial Android smartphone, which acts as a re...
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| author | María José Morón Rafael Luque Eduardo Casilari |
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| description | This paper evaluates and characterizes the technical performance of medicalwireless personal area networks (WPANs) that are based on smartphones. For this purpose,a prototype of a health telemonitoring system is presented. The prototype incorporates acommercial Android smartphone, which acts as a relay point, or “gateway”, between a setof wireless medical sensors and a data server. Additionally, the paper investigates if theconventional capabilities of current commercial smartphones can be affected by their useas gateways or “Holters” in health monitoring applications. Specifically, the profiling hasfocused on the CPU and power consumption of the mobile devices. These metrics havebeen measured under several test conditions modifying the smartphone model, the type ofsensors connected to the WPAN, the employed Bluetooth profile (SPP (serial port profile) orHDP (health device profile)), the use of other peripherals, such as a GPS receiver, the impactof the use of theWi-Fi interface or the employed method to encode and forward the data thatare collected from the sensors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a62034508ec41848dfbb07954159a1a2022-12-22T02:06:48ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202014-01-0114157559410.3390/s140100575s140100575On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area NetworksMaría José Morón0Rafael Luque1Eduardo Casilari2Departamento Tecnología Electrónica, University of Málaga, ETSI Telecomunicación, 29071 Málaga, SpainDepartamento Tecnología Electrónica, University of Málaga, ETSI Telecomunicación, 29071 Málaga, SpainDepartamento Tecnología Electrónica, University of Málaga, ETSI Telecomunicación, 29071 Málaga, SpainThis paper evaluates and characterizes the technical performance of medicalwireless personal area networks (WPANs) that are based on smartphones. For this purpose,a prototype of a health telemonitoring system is presented. The prototype incorporates acommercial Android smartphone, which acts as a relay point, or “gateway”, between a setof wireless medical sensors and a data server. Additionally, the paper investigates if theconventional capabilities of current commercial smartphones can be affected by their useas gateways or “Holters” in health monitoring applications. Specifically, the profiling hasfocused on the CPU and power consumption of the mobile devices. These metrics havebeen measured under several test conditions modifying the smartphone model, the type ofsensors connected to the WPAN, the employed Bluetooth profile (SPP (serial port profile) orHDP (health device profile)), the use of other peripherals, such as a GPS receiver, the impactof the use of theWi-Fi interface or the employed method to encode and forward the data thatare collected from the sensors.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/1/575wireless personal area networksBluetoothSPPHDPsmartphoneAndroidperformance evaluation |
| spellingShingle | María José Morón Rafael Luque Eduardo Casilari On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks Sensors wireless personal area networks Bluetooth SPP HDP smartphone Android performance evaluation |
| title | On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks |
| title_full | On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks |
| title_fullStr | On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks |
| title_short | On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks |
| title_sort | on the capability of smartphones to perform as communication gateways in medical wireless personal area networks |
| topic | wireless personal area networks Bluetooth SPP HDP smartphone Android performance evaluation |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/1/575 |
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