New Wireless Devices Could Help Consumers Keep Track of their Vital Signs

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In spring 2007 Calit2 staff researcher Paul Blair mentored a team of electrical engineering students (Gerard Alzona Khang Ha and Kevin Chang) who developed an enhanced Bluetooth blood-pressure monitor and integrated it into Calit2s cell phone-based ...
In spring 2007, Calit2 staff researcher Paul Blair mentored a team of electrical engineering students (Gerard Alzona, Khang Ha and Kevin Chang) who developed an enhanced Bluetooth blood-pressure monitor and integrated it into Calit2's cell phone-based wireless healthcare infrastructure.

Forget about videogames or driving directions. Paul Blair thinks the next ‘killer’ mobile applications will be for monitoring your health. The Calit2 staff researcher should know; he is working on a range of devices that use wireless technology as well as smaller and cheaper sensors to track people’s vital signs on a daily, even hourly, basis. The data can then be automatically uploaded to a database accessible via the Internet.


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