Exploring the Potential of Bluetooth Low Energy for Wireless Sensing and On-Board Computation in Remote Health Monitoring

Jun 20, 2023·
Petar Šolić
,
Riccardo Colella
Toni Perković
Toni Perković
,
Carlo Giacomo Leo
,
Saverio Sabina
,
Luca Catarinucci
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Abstract

In recent years, wearable technology has seen a significant increase in popularity, particularly for its ability to track vital health parameters, which has proven invaluable in remote patient monitoring applications. In this paper, an electronic device has been developed with a Bluetooth 5.1 Low Energy (BLE) radio that is capable of detecting, collecting, aggregating and transmitting the Root Sum of Squares Method (RSS) of the acceleration data at regular intervals of 60 seconds to any standard BLE device. This wireless multiprotocol and multiband microcontroller operates on sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz frequencies, supporting Bluetooth® 5.1 low energy protocol and other wireless communication protocols through a Dynamic MultiProtocol Manager (DMM) driver. The BMI160 has been designed and specifically programmed to perform acceleration processing on the three measured axes onboard, thereby reducing the amount of data to be transmitted, as well as the communication time. This device can be integrated with other physiological parameter monitoring systems of an individual/patient, making it possible to use these systems for a variety of applications, including healthcare and wellness.

Type

Publication

International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech), 1–3

Status

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.