Wearable sensors and component-based design for home health care

Author

Warren, Steve ; Yao, Jianchu ; Barnes, G. Edward

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1871

Abstract

Recent technology trends indicate that truly cost-effective home health care systems of the future will be constructed from distributed, plug-and-play, commodity components assembled on-the-fly to match the needs of a given patient. This paper describes early efforts in the Medical Component Design Laboratory: a research and teaching laboratory where component technologies developed for research will support student projects in closely related engineering courses. Two component-based prototypes are presented in this paper: a Bluetooth-enabled personal monitoring system and a plug-and-play pulse oximeter.

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical communication; biomedical transducers; oximetry; patient care; patient monitoring; Bluetooth-enabled personal monitoring system; Medical Component Design Laboratory; closely related engineering courses; commodity components; component technologies; component-based design; home health care; plug-and-play; pulse oximeter; student projects support; teaching laboratory; technology trends; wearable sensors; Assembly systems; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical monitoring; Design engineering; Education; Laboratories; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053069

Filename

1053069