Streaming pulse data to the cloud with bluetooth LE or NODEMCU ESP8266

Abstract

The paper describes the development of the three prototypes which enable monitoring of heart pulse sensor data on the cloud. The prototypes are based on a) Bluetooth module, b) Low Energy Bluetooth module and c) ESP8266 Wi-Fi module. The client side implementation is developed by the application of JavaScript. Node.js was used on the server side with application of node-serialport library with Bluetooth modules. In the case where ESP8266 Wi-Fi module was used, the data was transmitted directly to the cloud. The three different prototypes were compared according to the power consumption and complexity of design. The code example is provided illustrating the approach to develop cloud based graphing interface for biomedical mobile monitoring.