Design and Development of a Continua Cardiovascular Fitness System Using IEEE 11073 Profiles

摘要

With the increase of health concept and the threat of sport and fitness management, fitness device with communication ability becomes important functionality. Old sports and fitness facilities designed without standard communication protocol were private communication systems. These fitness devices only connect to the specific gateway and server. The ISO/IEEE 11073 specifications adopted by the Continua Health Alliance are the international personal healthcare device communication standards. In which, the fitness and activity profiles are included in these standards. By these standards, the fitness devices can intercommunication and exchange measurement data within a single system. In addition, the Bluetooth Health Device Profile denned by Bluetooth SIG is the transport standard for medical devices. The Bluetooth Health Device Profile is seamlessly connected with the ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device standards to exchange measurement data. The design for the Continua Cardiovascular Fitness system proposed in this paper is based on the Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) as well as the Continua Design Guidelines V4.0 and ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device standards. The Continua Cardiovascular Fitness system senses the physical activities from the users, and then transmits these data to the application hosting device (AHD) and server in compliance with IEEE 11073 data format and protocol standards via the Bluetooth HDP interface. Based on the testing results, users can transmit exercise measurement to any application hosting device certified by the Continua Health Alliance over the Bluetooth HDP interface successfully.