Pulse Sensor for tele-medicine

Abstract

In the recent years, the problem of aging population becomes more serious in the developing and developed countries (e.g. China and Japan in Asia). Therefore, the medical expenses in those countries are continuously increasing. Especially in China, the single child policy was started in the 80s, the medical treatment enhancement has improved human life and impelled the problem from being worse in the coming decade. In the 12th five year planning of China, innovation of the medical equipment and technologies in health care is being one of the main tasks. However, the elderly care services and the related equipment development still cannot reach the demand. Furthermore, the medical personnel demand is facing the shorthanded problem particularly in Hong Kong. Hence, new technologies are desperately needed to supplement existing medical systems to effectively relieve the problem. The progress and innovations of the wireless communication is no doubt the most successful development in these two decades. There is still much room for the advancement of wireless technologies so that medical equipment and health care products can be maturely applied. This project aims at the development of wireless technology for medical sensors and equipment (e.g. heart rate, blood pressure etc). The successful development of the captioned wireless medical data delivery will be described.