基于Android的医疗信息传感器

核心提示：Because phones and sensors can communicate with each other wirelessly via Bluetooth, the number of sensors that can be embedded both on a user and in his or her

Because phones and sensors can communicate with each other wirelessly via Bluetooth, the number of sensors that can be embedded both on a user and in his or her environment is practically limitless. In one application, the researchers put a sensor into the digital bathroom scale of users and their blood pressure monitors to quantify daily changes related to too much fluid retention in patients. The resulting data allowed their algorithms, processed in by the server to which the smartphone sends its data, to suggest possible modification of dosage of blood pressure medication.

因为手机和传感器通过蓝牙进行无线通信，用户身上和周边环境的传感器的数量实际上是有限的。在其中一个应用中，研究人员放置了一个传感器到数字浴室中度量用户的身材并监控用户的血压，由此可以量化出每日的相对变化以判断是否在病人体内存留过多的液体。生成的数据通过智能手机发送给服务器并由其上运行的算法计算出血压药物可能的计量变化。

Seto et al. cited the Android platform as a unique enabler of their work, not only because Android phones, like all smart phones, are fairly capable wearable computers in their own right. Because Android is open-source, the researchers were able to develop on top of it using the SPINE platform for remote sensing, and to add to it their own API, known as WAVE (not to be confused with Google's Wave). In combination, these research platforms allow them free reign to experiment.

Seto 以及其他人，使用Android平台作为他们工作的唯一平台，不仅仅是因为像其他智能手机一样的Android phone是一个足以承受的便于随身携带的移动计算平台，更因为Android是开源的，因此研究人员可以在其上使用用于远程传感的SPINE平台进行开发，并添加他们自己的API——被称为WAVE(别跟Google的Wave搞混了)。这样结合起来使得研究人员可以自由的进行试验。

So far the only drawback to using the Android platform in this work, note the researchers, is that it can't locate users indoors. The researchers spend a