Smartphone, PDA and Embedded devices as mobile monitoring stations of Biotelemetric System ONDREJ KREJCAR, JINDRICH CERNOHORSKY, PETR FOJCIK Centre for Applied Cybernetics, Department of Measurement and Control VSB Technical University of Ostrava 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava Poruba 70833 CZECH REPUBLIC Abstract: - Existence of software platform, which will allow us to monitor the patients’ bio-parameters and provide us with services which help with full health care, is more than relevant these days. The aim of our project is to provide solution which can be used in different spheres of health care and which will be available through PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), web or desktop clients. Practically developing system works with an ECG sensor connected to mobile equipment, such as PDA/Embedded, based on Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. The whole system is based on the architecture of .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Server. The project was tested in real environment in cryogenic room (-136 O C). Key-Words: - Smartphone, PDA, Embedded device, biotelemetry, SQL CE Database 1 Introduction In our world society exist widely spectrum of middle- aged people like businessmen, CEOs, managers and other have very hectic lives with much stress and without good ways of living. Sometimes these people have a collapse, breakdown or heart attack and must be in hospitals or health resorts for a long time to regenerate their bodies. The time that they spend in these institutions, is nonutilisable and very long for them. Possibilities of today physics are restricted by many of prescripts so patients cannot use some of the newest techniques (like hyperbaric or arctic chambers), which make it possible to reduce the regeneration time by weeks or months. For example, these chambers are restricted to patients in the first six months after heart attack due to no information about patients’ conditions during the procedure. Here is the main area of utilization of our telemetric system. Of course the use of our system is not limited only to businessmen, but it is targeted to middle-aged people with some knowledge about new technology like mobile phones. The price of client devices of our system is not low, so we suppose people who can invest to these sorts of assistants. Aim of the platform for patients bio-parameters monitoring is to offer a solution providing services which help and make full health care more efficient without limitations for specific country. Doctors and other medical staff will not be forced to make difficult and manual work including unending paperwork, but they will be able to focus on the patients and their problems. It helps to better psychological condition of both sides. All data will be accessible almost anytime anywhere through special applications designated for portable devices web browser or desktop clients and any made changes will be immediately at disposal to medical staff based on the security clearance. Nurses will be able to find out prescribed procedure of patient treatment which was written down by doctor during regular round. Doctors will have immediate access to the patients newest results of accomplished examinations. In the case that the ambulance have to go to some accident, rescue team can due to portable devices send information about patient health condition directly to hospital where responsible doctors and staff will have information needed to execute immediate operation without delaying by preparation of necessary equipment. Patients who need not hospitalization will be able to be treated at home due to the system capable of remote transmission of information about patients bio-signals, so patients will be constantly under medical supervision and doctors will be able to make necessary measure if needed. All bio- signals data will be stored and automatically analyzed by neuronal network. System will evaluate presence of critical values which could be the sign of worse medical condition of a patient. In the moment of crossing the border of monitored bio-signals values inserted by doctor, system will inform responsible medical staff and provides all information which could help to determine the cause and seriousness of the problem. The basic idea is to create a system that controls important information about the state of a wheelchair- bound person (monitoring of ECG and pulse in early phases, then other optional values like temperature or oxidation of blood ...), his situation in time and place (GPS) and an axis tilt of his body or wheelchair (2axis TOPICS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY ISSN: 1790-5125 65 ISBN: 978-960-474-036-9