Title :
Wireless healthcare monitoring system
Author :
Touati, Farid ; Hamza, Nabil ; Khriji, Lazhar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput., Eng. Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, Muscat, Oman
Abstract :
Rapid advances in information technology and telecommunications, and more specifically wireless and mobile communications are leading to the emergence of a new type of information infrastructure that has the potential of supporting an array of advanced services for healthcare. This paper developed a wireless biomedical sensor network prototype system based on ISM band for healthcare. It offers flexibility and mobility to save cost and energy spent on wiring. The framework hardware and software structure, related programming, the accuracy of the system and an optimization of power consumption are also discussed in this paper. Comparing the system which uses ISM band with traditional wired network system for healthcare, it has advantage of low cost, low power and wider coverage.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; health care; optimisation; power aware computing; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; ISM band; hardware structure; optimization; power consumption; programming; software structure; system accuracy; wireless biomedical sensor network; wireless healthcare monitoring system; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Costs; Information technology; Medical services; Mobile communication; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Autonomous healthcare; Biomedical sensor; ISM band; Multi-purpose system; energy saving;
Conference_Titel :
Design and Test Workshop (IDT), 2009 4th International
Conference_Location :
Riyadh
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5748-9
DOI :
10.1109/IDT.2009.5404164