M2M Solutions for Home Health Monitoring

Remote patient monitoring (telemetry) is one area where the machine-to-machine industry (M2M) is making a difference in more than just economic terms, by improving quality of life. Since 2002, eDevice has been engineering complete M2M solutions, allowing eHealth companies to focus on their core medical operations. Because of their reliability and cost-efficiency, eDevice technologies have been used in millions of healthcare devices within tens of thousands of medical units.

With the advent of M2M-enabled monitors, patients are no longer actually patients. They can go about their lives without much restriction, and the monitor will even remind them to collect and send the data at defined intervals.  Home health monitoring is usually designed to collect and send several measurements including blood pressure, temperature and weight, which together provide detailed health information. Assisted living centers without in-house doctors also use such monitors.

Wireless GSM medical module

Home health monitoring using a fixed-line solution (PSTN / POTS modem) works as well as cellular-based solutions (GSM / GPRS module) and are more cost-effective. However they are not adapted to DSL-Cable unbundling at home (VoIP) and also prevent patients from traveling. Wireless Health Monitoring (including those for outdoor use) involves the collection of a single vital sign or group of vital signs related to a very specific or potentially acute condition such as diabetes. Such monitors typically use a GSM module. M2M wireless solutions are making a big difference in every day’s life of people with welfare diseases or long-term health problems. For healthcare companies, it makes a big difference too.


Do you need to:

• Migrate from wired Medical Devices to Wireless?
• Connect Medical Device to a PSTN network?
• Connect Medical Device to Cellular?

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