6Lo Bluetooth Low Energy for Patient-Centric Healthcare Service on the Internet of Things

Abstract

In this proposal, we suggest the Internet of Things connectivity for patient-centric healthcare based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). According to population aging, the careercentric healthcare change to patient-centric healthcare to manage excessive older people. A smartphone and BLE sensing devices are widely used as infrastructure of patient-centric healthcare. However because BLE cannot support IP communication with Internet devices, the smartphone wastes additional resource for application to communicate with Internet devices. Because of wasted resource, the smartphone may occur performance degradation and shutdown. To solve this issue, we support IP communication on BLE. We uses 6LoWPAN standard which provides IPv6 communication over Low power Wireless Personal Networks (6LoWPAN) to enable IPv6 communication over BLE.