Conventional method for temperature measurement is becoming insufficient in daily and clinical demands. To realize a long term temperature monitoring and make alarming when abnormal temperature occurs in disease outbreak, a mobile phone enabled wireless temperature measuring and recording device with pervasive purpose adopting type-T thermocouple and bluetooth module is developed. It aims to present both an easy, quick and continuous recording of human skin temperature, and a forecast alarm for abnormal temperature. Comparative tests were performaned with Agilent data acquisition system, and the alarming function of the device was also tested. It was demonstrated that such device could measure the temperature accurately, send the data to display at the screen of the phone in a timely way, and stores a huge amount of data into the mobile phone. In addition, if setting up an alert threshold in advance and putting the thermocouple into the water bath with temperature above such value, the mobile phone will automatically alarm via bees sound. Therefore, such new device can provide a quick and low cost temperature acquisition strategy which is expected to find significant application in future health management and many medical situations.
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