The potential of machine-to-machine communications for developing the next generation of mobile device monitoring systems

Abstract

This paper describes an m-health system developed for monitoring patients with heart disease and diabetes in India. It has been developed to allow patients in remote rural regions to access health centers in large cities. Wireless medical sensor readings and personal data acquired by health workers are combined into a set of patient monitoring parameters. Mobile device applications running on a web browser are then used to upload the data over the communications network infrastructure to a central server located at a main hospital for storage and clinical diagnosis. The system has great potential for M2M (machine-to-machine) communications. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.