Wireless sensor networks in application to patients health monitoring

Author

Rajba, Stanislaw ; Raif, Pawel ; Rajba, Teresa ; Mahmud, Mufti

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Autom., Univ. of Bielsko-Biala, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

fYear

2013

fDate

16-19 April 2013

Firstpage

94

Lastpage

98

Abstract

This work presents an application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) of random access with one-way transmission to the monitoring of hospital patients. In the paper, we consider WSN single-hop network using one single radio frequency, such that all nodes are divided into several groups depending on the average time between the transmission due to the different state of health of patients. We apply the Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages (PASTA) to modeling of WSN. We present formula for the probability of collisions which has been verified by simulation studies of network.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; medical computing; patient monitoring; stochastic processes; wireless sensor networks; PASTA method; Poisson arrivals see time average; WSN application; WSN model; WSN single-hop network; average transmission time; collision probability; network simulation study; node group division; one-way transmission; patient health state; patients health monitoring; random access; single radio frequency; wireless sensor network application; Ad hoc networks; Hospitals; Mathematical model; Monitoring; Protocols; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Key words; Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages (PASTA system); Wireless Sensor Network (WSN); probability of collision; random control monitoring of hospital patients;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), 2013 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5882-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICARE.2013.6583075

Filename

6583075