Abstract
Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy are wireless transmission scheme related to the IEEE 802.15.1 standard, and it is not developed only for medical and healthcare applications, but recently it has been widely used as a tool for connecting vital sensing devices to a smartphone. On the other hand, the IEEE 802.15 working group has released standards such as 802.15.6, 802.15.4j and 802.15 specialized for medical and healthcare applications. In this speech, I present the detail on recent WPAN (wireless personal area network) standardization activity for medical and healthcare applications in the IEEE 802 working group.
