Complementary application of house-embedded and wearable infrastructures for health monitoring

This paper focuses on the design of wearable system operation modes in context of cooperation between personal healthcare systems. The patient is currently provided with telemedical solutions for home care and seamless diagnosis based on selected vital parameters. When two or more specialized systems are applied for monitoring of the same subject, the possible interference and cooperation are in question. The cooperation between home care and wearable systems is of particular interest, because of their complementary features. Considerations of various cooperation scenarios led to the specification of three cooperation levels with regard to the required software integration. The paper presents also the design of a cooperation protocol for two prototype surveillance systems. The reported cooperation enables the use of communication resources of the stationary system as a carrier of messages from the wearable system over the wired channel.