# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/phako/BPM>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/phako/BPM/blob/b20cd119ee3157204ccad2ab135bd24c29453e68/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bpm-aponorm-usb-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bpm-aponorm-usb-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bpm-aponorm-usb-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/phako/BPM/blob/b20cd119ee3157204ccad2ab135bd24c29453e68/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/phako/BPM/blob/b20cd119ee3157204ccad2ab135bd24c29453e68/analyze.py>

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