Architecture of a wireless sensor network for vital signs transmission in hospital setting
Document Type
Conference Item
Publication Date
11-1-2007
Abstract
This paper proposes the architecture of a ubiquitous healthcare system for hospitals and care institutions which is based on application of wireless sensor networks. This system aims to obtain vital signals like ECG and body temperature from multiple patients and transmit it through wireless network to the network coordinator node which is under direct supervision of physician and expert hospital staffs. The wireless nodes that have been utilized for demonstration of the system are tmote sky from Moteiv, which are compatible with IEEE 802.15.4 standard and emerging ZigBee technology for low power applications. To establish and maintain the network for large number of mobile nodes and increase the network lifetime, mesh topology and an energy-aware link-quality-based version of source routing protocol has been used in this system.
Keywords
Body temperatures, Energy-aware, IEEE 802.15.4, International conferences, Low power applications, Mesh topologies, Mobile nodes, Network life-time, Source routing protocols, Ubiquitous healthcare system, Vital signs, Wireless nodes, Wireless sensors, Zigbee technology
Divisions
fac_eng
Event Title
2nd International Conference on Convergent Information Technology, ICCIT 07
Event Location
Gyongju, South Korea.
Event Dates
21 - 23 November 2007
Event Type
conference