Using Wearable Sensors for Remote Healthcare Monitoring System

• 作者: A. O Adesina A. P. Abidoye H. O. Nyongesa K. K Agbele N. A. Azeez
• 来源期刊: 传感技术(英文)
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WIRELESS BODY Area NETWORKS ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 PDA 3G Medical Server
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（2）
• 页码范围: 22-28
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: TP2

摘要

Recent technological advances in wireless communications and wireless sensor networks have enabled the design of low-cost, intelligent, tiny, and lightweight medical sensor nodes that can be strategically placed on human body, create a wireless body area network (WBAN) to monitor various physiological vital signs for a long period of time and providing real-time feedback to the user and medical staff. WBANs promise to revolutionize health monitoring. In this paper, medical sensors were used to collect physiological data from patients and transmit it to Intelligent Personal digital Assistant (IPDA) using ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 standard and to medical server using 3G communications. We introduced priority scheduling and data compression into the system to increase transmission rate of physiological critical signals which improve the bandwidth utilization. It also extends the life time of hand-held personal server by reducing power consumption during transmission.