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PSUT students develop mobile phone application



AMMAN (JT) - A project by three senior engineering students from the King Abdullah II College of Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) ranked first in the mobile phone applications category at the first National Technological Parade, held at the University of Jordan this week.

The winning graduation project competed with more than 60 projects presented by all the Kingdom’s private and public universities, according to a PSUT statement.

The designed and developed prototype involves a system that graphs a heart electrocardiogram (ECG) using Bluetooth technology on a mobile phone or PDA.

The ECG graph can be captured and saved on the device itself, and it can be sent to a doctor or a specialised healthcare provider using the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the statement said.

The system prototype is composed of three medical electrodes that are attached to the patient’s body, and a custom-made electronic unit designed for collecting and processing signals from these elecrodes for transmission to the mobile phone or PDA, to be displayed using a software application which was developed for this purpose.

This setup enables a patient to follow up with the doctor from any location covered by the cellular wireless network that offers data services, according to the statement.

The three students who designed the system are Mohammad Njoom, Mohammad Al Madhoon and Mohammad Khader, assisted and supervised by Ashraf Tahat.

Tahat, a faculty member in the PSUT communications engineering department, said incorporating this prototype location-based capabilities using GPS technology can help reduce the response time in emergency situations, which can be critical in saving human lives.