Portable Medical Sensor Data Monitoring and Acquisition Hardware Platform with Edge Computing and Wireless Communication

In this paper, a portable platform for medical sensor data acquisition, processing, packaging, and transmission is presented. The proposed device is able to process the data provided by the different medical sensors on-board by using the edge computing technique. The device is capable of aggregating data from different interfaces, through a set of communication protocols (wired and wireless) and transmitting the data directly to a mobile device of the caretaker or to a remote server. The focus of the proposed device is to help doctors, nurses, caretakers, or family members to assist and monitor different biological signals of patients, elderly people, and persons in need. This device significantly reduces the cost of care for these patients and helps to reduce the strain on medical facilities and personnel.