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; biological tissues; biomedical telemetry; microwave power amplifiers; prosthetics; sugar; test equipment; PDA; RF signal-biological tissue interaction; bluetooth low energy implantable glucose monitoring system; class E power amplifiers; implantable wireless transmitter; low power communication protocol; patient mobile phone; power efficiency; Attenuation; Bluetooth; Gain; Monitoring; Skin; Sugar; Transmitters; Biotelemetry applications; Bluetooth low energy transmitter; Class E power amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2011 41st European
Conference_Location :
Manchester
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-235-6
