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Using Bluetooth to monitor heart rates isn't that far-fetched. In fact, researchers at the Collin County Community College Preston Ridge campus in Frisco, Texas, are already doing it.
In May, managers at Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY)'s research and development center in Richardson, Texas, offered to help. (Corporate altruism wasn't the only motive; Ericsson needs engineers, and the college is a source of talent.) Ericsson gave money and experts to help the school's engineering students develop a wireless system for monitoring athletes. Not surprisingly, the system they developed uses Bluetooth, which Ericsson developed.
Here's how the system works. Say researchers want to measure the heart and breathing rates of ten cyclists. They attach sensors and Bluetooth radio transmitters to the athletes' bodies. As the cyclists pedal around a track, the transmitters send data from the sensors over the airwaves to wireless relay devices, which are stationed at 10-meter intervals along the track. The devices, made by Wi-LAN, an outfit in Calgary, Alberta, forward the data over a high-speed wireless network (operated by Dallas-based 4G Network Technologies) to a server in the college's lab.
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