Remote Health Monitoring System Using ZigBee Network and GPRS Transmission Technology

Author

Yu, Hongzhou ; Liu, Lu

Author_Institution

Ind. Inf. Dept., Shenyang Inst. of Autom., Shenyang, China

Volume

1

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

151

Lastpage

154

Abstract

Remote health monitoring system is used to collect and transfer biosignal data from the patient to healthcare center. In this work, a method using the combination of ZigBee and GPRS is presented. These two wireless technologies are integrated to support continuous biosignal monitoring in presence of patient mobility. The principle of remote data transmission through GPRS and short range data transmission through ZigBee is introduced. All data output from medical devices are transferred within a group of wireless personal area network (WPAN) to GPRS gateway. Then, the gateway transmits biosignal data to healthcare center for further analysis. In order to communicate with different medical device, the wireless data transmission devices adopt both RS232 and USB as interface.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical telemetry; health care; internetworking; packet radio networks; patient monitoring; personal area networks; radiotelemetry; GPRS gateway; GPRS transmission technology; RS232; USB; WPAN; Zigbee network; biosignal data; biosignal monitoring; healthcare center; medical devices; patient mobility; remote data transmission; remote health monitoring system; wireless data transmission devices; wireless personal area network; Batteries; Bioinformatics; Ground penetrating radar; Monitoring; Servers; Wireless communication; Zigbee; GPRS; Remote health monitoring; ZigBee; biosignal data; wireless data transmission units;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Design (ISCID), 2011 Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1085-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCID.2011.46

Filename

6079658