This paper presents a system for transmitting ECG signals using recent cell phone technologies. The aim of the project is to give physicians and clinical staff the possibility to monitor homecare and emergency patients using telemetry. The acquired signals can be viewed at both ends of the system, i.e., transmitter and receiver. Before transmitting the signals, the system acquires them by using...

One of the challenging problems of pervasive computing is to link a physical object with digital information because many of the pervasive computing applications require manual inputs or complex image processing to obtain information related to a real object. The use of 2D barcodes eliminates such excess processing to acquire the needed information. The 2D barcodes have high capacity to store d...

In Brief For pregnant women with diabetes, using cell phone/Internet technology to track and report self-monitoring of blood glucose results improves compliance and satisfaction compared to using the more traditional methods of log books, telephone calls, and voicemail messages.

Thanks to the technology, mobile devices including cell phones have become an integral part of the modern life. Therefore, public concern pertaining to short-term and long-term possible adverse effects of using cell phone and electromagnetic radiation exposure of it is growing rapidly. There are various studies by which the positive and negative results have been demonstrated. The relationship ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The primary objective of the present study was to investigate which cell-phone activities are associated with cell-phone addiction. No research to date has studied the full-range of cell-phone activities, and their relationship to cell-phone addiction, across male and female cell-phone users. METHODS College undergraduates (N = 164) participated in an online survey. Partic...

Despite the widespread use of mobail phones in Iranian students, psychological and behavioral effects of addiction to it and its consequences have not been investigated yet. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between cell phone dependency with psychological disorders and academic burnout among nursing and midwifery students. In this study, 169 students were chosen through s...

As a subscriber becomes more aware of the mobile phone technology, he/she will seek for an appropriate package all together, including all the advanced features of a cellular phone can have. Hence, the search for new technology is always the main intention of the prime cell phone giants to out innovate their competitors. In addition, the main purpose of the fifth generation wireless networks (5...