Low-cost BLE bracelet as patients monitoring platform: range restrictions

Oct 17, 2022·
Kristina Zovko
,
Dinko Begušić
,
Petar Šolić
Toni Perković
Toni Perković
DOI

Abstract

This paper presents results of the signal strength of the BLE v4.0 protocol used by the low-cost bracelet in an indoor environment. Low-cost BLE bracelets can be utilized as a patient monitoring platform, because has the ability to measure the vital parameters of patients. Thus providing the possibility of usage in hospitals and nursing homes for constant monitoring of patients. The application such a bracelets in a real environment has several limitations, and one of them is the signal range of the bracelet tested in this paper. The obtained results are presented together with the simulations for the frequency of 2.4GHz.With a range of up to 18.03m for the low-cost BLE bracelet in an indoor environment with obstacles.

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Publication

IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom), 119–123

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Peer-reviewed
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Toni Perković
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Toni Perković
Full Professor
I am a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics and Computing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB), University of Split, Croatia, where I teach wireless network security, wireless communication networks, data science and reinforcement learning. My research spans information security, applied cryptography and the Internet of Things. Before returning to FESB in 2020, I was an assistant and then associate professor at the University Department of Forensic Sciences in Split. I co-founded the SpliTech international conference and serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Communications Software and Systems.