Title :
System for wireless health monitoring
Author :
Kumar, Arun ; Rahman, Fazlur
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Singapore Polytech., Singapore
Abstract :
A telemetric system that can measure physiological parameters in an unobtrusive way and can transmit it for remote monitoring can prove to be quite useful in providing the ambulatory patients with the freedom of mobility while their health is being monitored continuously. Such a system can be equally useful to monitor the vital signs of service personnel e.g. firefighters working in hazardous environment during their course of duty. In this paper a similar system, that has been designed & developed for unobtrusive and continuous health monitoring, is being described. The system uses RF and GSM communication methods to provide the physiological data online in real time.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; biosensors; health care; medical computing; mobile radio; patient monitoring; GSM communication method; RF communication method; ambulatory patients; firefighters; global system for mobile communications; hazardous working environment; health monitoring; physiological data online; physiological parameters measurement; remote monitoring; service personnel; telemetric sensor; telemetric system; wireless health monitoring; Biomedical monitoring; Condition monitoring; GSM; Patient monitoring; Personnel; Remote monitoring; Telemetry; Temperature sensors; Testing; Thermistors;
Conference_Titel :
Sensors for Industry Conference, 2004. Proceedings the ISA/IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8143-2
DOI :
10.1109/SFICON.2004.1287163
