Abstract

Nowadays, remote healthcare monitoring systems (RHMS) are attracting patients, doctors and caregivers. RHMS reduces the number of unessential hospitalizations by providing the required healthcare services for patients at home. Furthermore, continuous health monitoring using RHMS is a hopeful solution for elderly people suffering from chronic diseases. RHMS is in general three tiers architecture where the first tier uses intelligent wearable sensors to gather physiological signs. The majority of wearable sensors constructors commercialized sensing devices with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication interfaces, which lead to the development of diverse RHMS deploying BLE communication interfaces for physiological patient data gathering. In this paper, we introduce the basic concepts related to RHMS design and development. Besides that, we focus our investigation on the BLE communication protocol used in the healthcare context and its configuration to sense several physiological data. Also, we highlight the different steps enabling reading sensed data on mobile application.

Highlights

  • 1.1 General ContextHealthcare is one of the fastest-growing business fields and an important market for most countries and healthcare services are the most needed and consumed service by elderly people in the word

  • The main contributions of this paper summarized as follows: (1) state-of-the-art analysis related to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based remote healthcare monitoring systems (RHMS) for mono and multi physiological data sensing; (2) comprehensive study and roadmap related to the design and the development of BLE based RHMS; (3) BLE Processing and computation issues of sensed physiological data

  • We provided a detailed study related to RHMS based on BLE communication

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Summary

General Context

Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing business fields and an important market for most countries and healthcare services are the most needed and consumed service by elderly people in the word. Different communication technologies were suggested for the data exchange between the body sensors nodes and the coordinator(the first tier). The IEEE 802.15.6 [7] is the dedicated standards for the communication between the sensors and the coordinator. Nowadays, sensing devices with 802.15.6 modules are not available enough for the commercial usage in the market and they are more expensive than wearable sensors with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) which are widely commercialized by many sensors constructors such as libelium, mindwave. For this reason, in this paper, our investigation is related to RHMS using sensors with BLE interfaces

Contributions and Paper Organisation
RHMS Basic Architecture
Related Works About RHMS Using BLE
Basic Concepts
BLE Protocols Stack
Reading Sensed Physiological Signs with BLE
Example of Services and Characteristics of HDP
Steps for Reading Sensed Data on Mobile App
Conclusion
24. Bluetooth
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