veera s

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7 years, 3 months ago.

Connecting and transfering data using mbed

planing to connect medical devices using mbed cloud and publish the data through REST API's for end user consume.. Our devices are Bluetooth enabled only. Can we get them connected using mbed cloud without writing code or It's mandatory to Buy mbed enabled devices to transfer data. Can use cellular communication mode

Please guide me new to this platform. Let me know better approach.

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Connecting Medical devices using mbed and transferring the data through REST API's and monitoring the same

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martin bradley
7 years, 3 months ago.

I am doing early stage beta testing with the MBED Client/Cloud and I'm not an expert.

MBED's Cloud is very flexible but some amount of coding will probably be required to get your devices talking to the MBED Cloud.

The MBED Cloud can communicate with all types of clients for example:

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-client-linux-example

1) For this scenario you "could" have a Linux server running, communicating with your Bluetooth devices, the Linux server would act as the MBED Client and send data from all of your Bluetooth sensors to the MBED Cloud.

or

2) You could program a MBED Client compatible device that has Bluetooth, it would talk to your Bluetooth devices and send data from all of your Bluetooth sensors to the MBED Cloud.

or

3) Program your Bluetooth devices so they have MBED Client running on them, if a gateway to the MBED Cloud exists your Bluetooth devices could then talk directly to the MBED Cloud. This seems to be what you are looking for.

or

4) Probably many more options _ I hope I didn't confuse.

Martin

Thanks Martin for your response. Little confused over answer since very new to this and c++. Can i directly use my bluetooth sensor to push data to mbed cloud(connector) withouth havng mbed enabled board. As per my understanding we need to have one mbed enabled devices and program that connect with our bluetooth enabled sensors(Please confirm on this clearly).

posted by veera s 24 Jan 2017

Yes - "we need to have one mbed enabled devices and program that connect with our bluetooth enabled sensors"

Having an "mbed enabled device" would be the simplest and require the least amount of code.

The mbed Cloud is flexible so there may be other ways of accomplishing what you are trying to do.

I've only been using the mbed Cloud for a couple months and so you need to take my advice with that understanding.

I would leave this question open, I hope additional people try to answer.

posted by martin bradley 24 Jan 2017