Physiological information acquisition through wireless biomedical sensor networks

Author

Ren, Hongliang ; Meng, Max Q H ; Chen, Xijun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

fYear

2005

fDate

27 June-3 July 2005

Abstract

The monitoring and acquisition of patients´ physiological information are quite crucial for the further treatment. Wireless network of biomedical sensors shows great potential to significantly enhance the biometrics performance. Meanwhile, it poses prominent characteristics and challenges to medicos and engineers for its particular medical application compare to other application of wireless sensor networks (WSN). This paper first investigates the exciting conceivable application of WSN in medical area. Then the unique challenges and requirements are analyzed in detail. Along with the further study of the logical architecture and network protocols, preliminary solutions are proposed for the WBSN in a hospital environment.

Keywords

biosensors; intelligent sensors; medical information systems; patient monitoring; physiology; protocols; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; hospital environment; medical application; network protocol; patient monitoring; physiological information acquisition; wireless biomedical sensor network; wireless sensor networks; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical monitoring; Biometrics; Biosensors; Medical services; Medical treatment; Patient monitoring; Protocols; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Acquisition, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9303-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIA.2005.1635137

Filename

1635137