HM4All: A vital signs monitoring system based in spatially distributed ZigBee networks

Low power consumption and small footprint make ZigBee based devices well suited for personal healthcare applications, being a promising alternative to general care patient monitoring. However, their use in a healthcare facility to monitor several mobile patients poses several difficulties, mainly be...

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Published in2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Fernández-López, Helena, Afonso, José A, Correia, J H, Simões, Ricardo
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2010
Subjects
Energy consumption
HM4All
Hospitals
Medical services
Patient monitoring
Protocols
Prototypes
Remote monitoring
Software prototyping
Vital signals monitoring
Wireless sensor networks
ZigBee
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Summary:Low power consumption and small footprint make ZigBee based devices well suited for personal healthcare applications, being a promising alternative to general care patient monitoring. However, their use in a healthcare facility to monitor several mobile patients poses several difficulties, mainly because this protocol was primarily designed to operate in low data rate scenarios. This paper introduces HM4All, a remote vital signs monitoring system, and presents a prototype system being deployed in a hospital internment floor. Its architecture, original network topology, software applications and wireless sensors are described.
ISSN:2153-1633
DOI:10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8836