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

fYear

2011

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1265

Lastpage

1268

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2011 41st European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-235-6

Type

conf

Filename

6101909