Title :
A Soldier Health Monitoring System for Military Applications
Author :
Lim, Hock Beng ; Ma, Di ; Wang, Bang ; Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ; Iyer, Ravishankar K. ; Watkin, Kenneth L
Author_Institution :
Intell. Syst. Center, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Nanyang, China
Abstract :
With recent advances in technology, various wearable sensors have been developed for the monitoring of human physiological parameters. A Body Sensor Network (BSN) consisting of such physiological and biomedical sensor nodes placed on, near or within a human body can be used for real-time health monitoring. In this paper, we describe an on-going effort to develop a system consisting of interconnected BSNs for real-time health monitoring of soldiers. We discuss the background and an application scenario for this project. We describe the preliminary prototype of the system and present a blast source localization application.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; body sensor networks; electric sensing devices; patient monitoring; biomedical sensor nodes; blast source localization application; body sensor network; human physiological parameters; military applications; physiological sensor nodes; soldier real-time health monitoring system; wearable sensors; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Body sensor networks; Condition monitoring; Humans; Intelligent sensors; Media Access Protocol; Real time systems; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5817-2
DOI :
10.1109/BSN.2010.58
