Title :
Cost-effective deployment of communication resources for a home health telecare system for the elderly
Author :
Reina-Tosina, J. ; Sanchez, G. ; Roa, L. ; Prado, M.
Abstract :
This paper presents a communications infrastructure to provide a home telecare service to cover the territory of Andalusia (Spain) with the requirements of a high quality of service and cost efficiency. After analyzing several alternatives based on different access technologies, it is shown that X.25-based packet-switched networks provide the best results in terms of scalability, cost for the user and grade of service. A communications protocol has been developed for the transmission of the data, and an analysis of the PDU-Iength is performed to minimize the cost for the user.
Keywords :
data communication equipment; geriatrics; health care; multiprotocol label switching; quality of service; telemedicine; PDU-Iength; analyzing access technologies; communications infrastructure; communications protocol; cost efficiency; cost-effective depolyment; data transmission; home telecare service; packet-switched networks; scalability; Access protocols; Aging; Biomedical engineering; Cities and towns; Costs; Data analysis; Economic indicators; Quality of service; Scalability; Senior citizens;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279560
