Remote Health Monitoring Systems
Based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Communication Systems
Lamia Chaari Fourati
(B)
and Sana Said
Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), Laboratory of Technologies and Smart
Systems (LT2S), University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
lamiachaari1@gmail.com
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.
Keywords: Remote health monitoring system · Bluetooth Low
Energy · Healthcare services
1 Introduction
1.1 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. Providing healthcare services for every citizen everywhere becoming possible thanks to remote healthcare monitoring systems (RHMS), which allow long-term management of health conditions, diseases
prevention and detection of emergencies. RHMS is based on the deployment of
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) using wearable and/or implantable sensors in or around the human body. The sensed physiological data are forwarded
Supported by SFAX Digital Research Center: CRNS.
c
The Author(s) 2020
M. Jmaiel et al. (Eds.): ICOST 2020, LNCS 12157, pp. 41–54, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51517-1_4
Based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Communication Systems
Lamia Chaari Fourati
(B)
and Sana Said
Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), Laboratory of Technologies and Smart
Systems (LT2S), University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
lamiachaari1@gmail.com
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.
Keywords: Remote health monitoring system · Bluetooth Low
Energy · Healthcare services
1 Introduction
1.1 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. Providing healthcare services for every citizen everywhere becoming possible thanks to remote healthcare monitoring systems (RHMS), which allow long-term management of health conditions, diseases
prevention and detection of emergencies. RHMS is based on the deployment of
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) using wearable and/or implantable sensors in or around the human body. The sensed physiological data are forwarded
Supported by SFAX Digital Research Center: CRNS.
c
The Author(s) 2020
M. Jmaiel et al. (Eds.): ICOST 2020, LNCS 12157, pp. 41–54, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51517-1_4