A Wi-Fi Based Personal Wireless Hub for Medical Data Acquisition Application

Abstract

In this paper, a design of a Wi-Fi based Personal Wireless Hub (PWH) for medical application is proposed. Using the PWH, data from wired and wireless biosensors are collected and sent to data acquisition unit. The proposed PWH is light weight, power efficient and multipurpose device which is used with different biosensors to collect physiological data from human body. An android based mobile application is developed to store, analyze and display the medical data collected from the Wi-Fi based PWH. The collected data can be sent to remote server using an android based smartphone or stored in local storage. This enables remote and local access of medical data for diagnosis purpose. The Wi-Fi based personal wireless hub is prototyped in laboratory and tested with android application and computer software.