Case study

BPM: USB data access for the Aponorm blood pressure monitor

BPM documents a study of USB communication with the Aponorm Blutdruckmessgerät Oberarm Professionell blood pressure monitor and provides a Python reader for backing up measurements on Linux. The reader sends a serial command, parses cycle records containing timestamps and blood pressure values, and stores measurements in SQLite.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 3
Last commit: 2020-02-18
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the Aponorm Blutdruckmessgerät Oberarm Professionell monitor and Linux access to its serial device at /dev/ttyUSB0.
Prerequisites: The Python program imports bitstring, SQLObject, pyserial and matplotlib.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{bpm-aponorm-usb-case,
  title = {{BPM: USB data access for the Aponorm blood pressure monitor}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/phako/BPM}},
  url = {https://github.com/phako/BPM},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bpm-aponorm-usb-case/}}
}

Plain text

BPM: USB data access for the Aponorm blood pressure monitor. https://github.com/phako/BPM (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bpm-aponorm-usb-case/

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README.md GitHub · phako/BPM · Revision b20cd11
analyze.py GitHub · phako/BPM · Revision b20cd11