Phonegap Healthcare Adapter

PhoneGap Healthcare Adapter for NexJ

Project Goal

Develop an adapter to enable NexJ's Mobile Healthcare solutions to interact with Bluetooth peripherals.

Contributors

• Carl Desautels
• Wei Song

Supported Versions

• PhoneGap 2.0.0, released July 20, 2012

OSX

• Xcode 4.3 +
• OSX 10.7 +
• iOS 4.3 +
• Bluetooth SPP capable

Android

• Eclipse 3.6.2 +
• ADT Latest
• Java 1.6 +
• Minimum OS: 2.2
• Recommended OS: latest
• Bluetooth SPP capable

Project Status

• Current Sprint : Investigation

Project Backlog

Investigation

iOS

• Bluetooth can work on simulators.
• Deploy to devices, requiring enrollment in the developer program.
• Understand Objective C.
• Understand iOS best practice development.
• Understand iOS PhoneGap plugin best practices.

Android

• Bluetooth does not work on the emulator.
• Understand ADK best practice development.
• Understand ADK PhoneGap plugin best practices.

The Problem

NexJ's mobile health solution requires its smartphone health coach application to have the ability to read medical measurement data from Bluetooth-capable devices, The devices included in the initial project proposal are as follows: blood pressure device, glucose level measuring device and a weight measuring device.

The health coach application will be designed to use PhoneGap, a rising technology that blurs the line between mobile operating systems. Implementing native Bluetooth adapters becomes only part of the solution. The health coach application will interact with a unified API in JavaScript to retrieve data from Bluetooth-capable medical peripherals.

The unified JavaScript API will be developed to utilize Phonegap's JavaScript API to make native code calls. These native calls will focus on a medical Bluetooth device adapter which also must be implemented. This Bluetooth adapter will have be extended for each supported measuring device and implemented on each supported mobile operating system.

PhoneGap API

• Design a unified API in JavaScript that will allow the NexJ application to interact with Bluetooth devices.
• Define a project architecture that facilitates multiple device compatibility.

Blood Pressure Device

iOS

• Create native Bluetooth adapter for this device.

Android

• Create native Bluetooth adapter for this device.

Glucose Level Device

iOS

• Extend native Bluetooth adapter for this device.

Android

• Extend native Bluetooth adapter for this device.

Weight Scale Device

iOS

• Extend native Bluetooth adapter for this device.

Android

• Extend native Bluetooth adapter for this device.

Project Functionality Description

Project task

Design and implement PhoneGap plugins on iOS and Android platforms to realize the collection and storage of healthcare measurements (blood pressure, blood glucose, and weight) using Bluetooth® wireless technology.

Bluetooth Profile

Serial Port Profile (SPP).

Bluetooth protocols

RFCOMM and Service Discovery protocols.

Pairing

Secure Simple Pairing

Data transmission

Measurement date/time, measurement values, Bluetooth Id of remote unit, mode, and serial number of A&D PBT Series.

Master devices

A&D Bluetooth® devices PBT series, including blood pressure meter, blood glucose meter, and weight scale.

Slave devices/Bluetooth® Access Points

mobile devices, including iOS and Android smartphones/tablets.

PhoneGap Plugin Functionalities

The PhoneGap plugins to be developed on iOS and Android should have the following JavaScript functions:

1. Enable Bluetooth

This function turns on Bluetooth on the mobile device.

2. Disable Bluetooth

This function turns off Bluetooth on the mobile device.

3. List Bluetooth Devices

This function search and list all detected Bluetooth devices.

4. List Paired Devices

This function lists all A&D Bluetooth devices which have bound to the mobile smartphone/tablet.

5. Unpair device

This function removes an A&D Bluetooth device from paired device list.

6. Start Listing

• This function starts Bluetooth communication as SPP server on the mobile device through native application and makes the device available to receive the health measurements from A&D Bluetooth devices.
• This function should be called after Bluetooth is enabled on the mobile device.
• For first connection between an A&D Bluetooth and a mobile device, a native screen will pop up to allow user to input PIN code to configure the connection. Upon the success of connection, the two devices are paired. Then PIN code is no longer needed afterward.
• After receiving the communication packet from the A&D PBT Series (master) device, the packet is parsed and the obtained measurement date/time, measurement values, Bluetooth Id of remote unit, mode, and serial number of A&D PBT Series plus the Bluetooth ID of access point (the mobile device) will be stored in local database. The number of records is controlled less than 100.
• Upon the record successfully stored (Other situations are not covered here for conciseness), the access point needs to wait for about 250msec and to return “Data Accepted” within “Acknowledge & Configuration Packet” back to the master device ( A&D PBT series device).
• Shows mobile user with message that a measurement was successfully received.

7. Stop Listing

This function stops the SPP server on the mobile device.

8. Get recently received records

This function return received measurements in different ways:

• All records in brief
• A specific record by record id
• Blood pressure records
• Blood glucose records
• Weight scale records

Project Repository

• https://bitbucket.org/cwdesautels/nexj-mobile-bluetooth-adapter

Mercurical HowTo

• Mozilla Mercurial Docs

Branching Rules

• Nobody commits to default.
  • default is the master branch we will use to generate submissions back to NexJ
• Nobody commits to dev.
  • dev is the branch were the latest completed features and bug fixes come together for testing
• Keep branches relevant.
  • If the focus of what your coding changes, make a new branch
• Best practice is to branch off of dev.
  • Exceptional scenarios call for branching off of default or other branches, you will not encounter them
• Branch names in lowercase.
• Hyphenate branch names if required.
  • bluetooth-plugin
• Branch names must either be:
  • A bitbucket issue, example: issue-14 OR bug-14
  • A feature name, example: cryptography-bug

Resources

• Dowloads:
  • PhoneGap: Getting Started with iOs
  • PhoneGap: Getting Started with Android
• Documentation:
  • Bluetooth Developer Portal:
    • Bluetooth White papers
    • Development Resources
  • iOS Developer Resource
    • Bluetooth on Simulators
    • PhoneGap Tutorial
    • Objective C language Documentation
    • iOS 5 Development: Exploring the SDK
  • Android Developer Resource:
    • Setting up PhoneGap Development Environment for Android Platform