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Now a days, modern hospitals are adopting electronic health (E-Health) over traditional health care services. The E-Health services are provided by a radiation free, high capacity, high transmission rate and radiation free communication. In this paper, a hybrid radio frequency-wireless visible light communication (VLC-RF) system gives a newest solution to change the traditional wireless communication systems in health organizations. This paper provides an all-purpose system model where the biomedical information from patient are transmitted using VLC uplink to a decode and forward relay which further radiocasts that information to the laboratory. Finally a feasible demonstration which extracts the carotid signals data from patient is implemented in the laboratory.
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Vats, A., Aggarwal, M., Ahuja, S., Vashisth, S. (2017). Hybrid VLC-RF System for Real Time Health Care Applications. In: Bhattacharya, I., Chakrabarti, S., Reehal, H., Lakshminarayanan, V. (eds) Advances in Optical Science and Engineering. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 194. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3908-9_42
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