Title :
A Bluetooth low energy implantable glucose monitoring system
Author :
Ali, Mai ; Albasha, Lutfi ; Al-Nashash, Hasan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., American Univ. of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel framework on a remotely powered implantable glucose monitoring system. The RF signal interaction with the biological tissue under investigation has been characterized. The implantable unit is remotely powered by an external unit through inductive coupling. The novelty of this work resides in the design of two efficient class E Power Amplifiers (PAs) with power efficiency of 76% and 73% for the external power unit and the implantable unit respectively. The implantable wireless transmitter utilizes low power communication protocol, Bluetooth low energy, to transmit the measured glucose data to patient´s mobile phone or PDA.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; biomedical telemetry; low-power electronics; mobile computing; mobile handsets; notebook computers; patient monitoring; power amplifiers; protocols; Bluetooth low energy implantable glucose monitoring system; PDA; RF signal interaction; biological tissue; class E power amplifiers; external power unit; glucose data; implantable unit; implantable wireless transmitter; inductive coupling; low power communication protocol; mobile phone; power efficiency; remotely powered implantable glucose monitoring system; Attenuation; Bluetooth; Gain; Monitoring; Skin; Sugar; Transmitters; Biotelemetry applications; Bluetooth low energy transmitter; Class E power amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2011 European
Conference_Location :
Manchester
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1156-5
