Patent ID: 7946997

Claim:
A measurement system comprising: a sensor wire provided, at its distal end, with a physiological condition sensor configured to measure a physiological condition inside a patient, and to provide measured data to an external device, a transceiver unit configured to be connected to a proximal end of the sensor wire, a communication unit connected with the external device, wherein said transceiver unit is configured to communicate, by a communication signal, with said communication unit, to transfer measured data to the external device, wherein the communication signal, including the measured data, is generated by the transceiver unit and is transferred as an output signal, wherein said communication unit is configured to be connected to a standard input/output connector of the external device and to communicate with the external device in accordance with an established standard, or in accordance with relevant parts of an established standard, and a physical optical communication link arranged between said transceiver unit and said communication unit, wherein said communication signal is an optical signal transferred by said optical communication link, and that said transceiver unit comprises an energy device configured to energize said sensor, said transceiver unit and a distal part of said optical communication link, wherein said transceiver unit comprises a sensor signal adapting circuitry configured to filter, process, and format the signal received from the sensor wire, wherein said sensor signal adapting circuitry comprises a programmable sensor conditioning device, a calibration unit, the energy device, and an output amplifying unit.