The Design of the m-Health Service Application Using a Nintendo DS Game Console

Abstract

In this article, we developed an m-health monitoring system using a Nintendo DS game console to demonstrate its utility. The proposed system consists of a biosignal acquisition device, wireless sensor network, base-station for signal reception from the sensor network and signal conversion according to Internet protocol, personal computer display program, and the Nintendo DS game console. The system collects three-channel electrocardiogram (ECG) signals for cardiac abnormality detection and three-axis accelerometer signals for fall detection of a person. The collected signals are then transmitted to the base-station through the wireless sensor network, where they are transformed according to the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) and sent to the destination IP through Internet network. To test the developed system, the collected signals were displayed on a computer located in different building through wired Internet network and also simultaneously displayed on the Nintendo DS game console connected to Internet network wirelessly. The system was able to collect and transmit signals for more than 24 h without any interruptions or malfunctions, showing the possibility of integrating healthcare monitoring functions into a small handheld-type electronic device developed for different purposes without significant complications. It is expected that the system can be used in an ambulance, nursing home, or general hospital where efficient patient monitoring from long distance is necessary.

Mobile phone-based biosensing: An emerging “diagnostic and communication” technology

“…measuring glucose levels in the user's tears) and then communicate the results directly to a mobile phone. Other notable devices that could be connected to mobile phones include electronic bandages (Kassal et al, 2015), drones (Priye et al, 2016) and videogame systems (Lee et al, 2011;Karim et al 2012). Furthermore, new materials such as nanopaper (Morales-Narváez et al, 2015a) and graphene (Baptista-Pires et al, 2016) will soon be exploited for mobile phone-based biosensing.…”

Medical Virtual Instrumentation for Personalized Health Monitoring: A Systematic Review

“…One trend worth noting about MVI network models involves the direct connection between the output of the bio-signals and a remote webserver or cloud service, rather than a connection to a specific remote server on the physician's end. Five of the reviewed articles [22,28,31,36,37] used such a model. A number of advantages can be derived from this approach.…”

“…The wireless protocol was the most common for local-MVI communication and was used in 73.9% of the cases (Table 3). This included 26.1% for Bluetooth [11,21,30,31,33,34], 8.7% for ZigBee [22,24], and 39.1% for unspecified wireless protocols [12,19,20,23,25,28,29,32,33]. RS-232 protocols were used in 8.7% of the cases [14,37] and another 17.4% used other methods [15,16,20,36].…”

Leveraging consumer sensing devices for telehealth

“…Likewise, the game can monitor a user's BMI by explicitly asking for input from the users and keep track of their progress. These data can be shared with other users of the system for comparison, ultimately encouraging social interaction [32]. The DS also allows children with diabetes to connect in a social network called DIDGET, which rewards the user for building consistent blood glucose testing habits and meeting glucose targets [31].…”