Machine-to-Machine Communication for Wireless Mobile Health Monitoring

Abstract

Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M) refers to automated applications executing on smart devices or machines that communicate through a network with little or no human intervention at all. By enabling smart devices to communicate directly with one another, M2M communications technology has the potential to radically change the world around us and the way that we interact with objects. Many applications can benefit from M2M communications, such as transportation, health care, smart energy production, transmission, and distribution, logistics, city automation and manufacturing, security and safety, and others. Thus M2M communications have emerged as a cutting edge technology for next generation communication, are developing rapidly and inspiring numerous applications. This article presents an investigation of the applications of M2M communications. First, an overview of M2M communication is given. The enabling technologies and open research issues of M2M communication are also discussed. Then we have the network design architecture/issues of M2M for wireless health monitoring. The proposed prototype implementation of “Wireless Health Monitoring System” including the M2M service platform and M2M area network