Title :
Evaluation of 802.15.4 WPAN for patient monitoring
Author :
Kritsotaki, Angeliki ; Perakis, Konstantinos ; Koutsouris, Dimitris
Author_Institution :
Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
Homecare services have started adopting - during the last few years - a new provision model, based on wireless technologies, in order to support healthcare provision decentralisation and eInclusion. However, this new homecare service provision model raises several issues regarding the credibility of the data transmitted. From the plethora of available technologies to support the formulation of WPAN for homecare, literature has shown that IEEE 802.15.4 is probably the most suitable. The scope of the current paper is to evaluate the performance of an 802.15.4 star network under the interference of an 802.11 wireless network in real life conditions and for varied network traffic for homecare telemedicine services.
Keywords :
data communication; health care; patient monitoring; personal area networks; telemedicine; IEEE 802.15.4; WPAN; data transmission; eInclusion; healthcare provision decentralisation; homecare services; homecare telemedicine services; patient monitoring; wireless technologies; Biological system modeling; Biomedical monitoring; Heart; Lead; Monitoring; Transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Corfu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6559-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687788
