Sensor Network Design and Implementation for Health Telecare and Diagnosis Assistance Applications

The attempts to develop a ubiquitous health care monitoring system arisen from the need of automatic real-time medical services for emergent diseases. Besides, the physiological statuses gathered and maintained by this system are very helpful for diagnosis and early warning. To improve the medical s...

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Published in11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'05) Vol. 2; pp. 407 - 411
Main Authors Ming-Hui Jin, Ren-Guey Lee, Cheng-Yan Kao, You-Rui Wu, Frank Hsu, D., Tse-Ping Dong, Kuan-Tsae Huang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Biomedical monitoring
Biosensors
Communications technology
Computerized monitoring
Diseases
Energy consumption
Medical services
Protocols
Real time systems
Wireless sensor networks
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ISBN9780769522814
0769522815
ISSN1521-9097
DOI10.1109/ICPADS.2005.262

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Summary:The attempts to develop a ubiquitous health care monitoring system arisen from the need of automatic real-time medical services for emergent diseases. Besides, the physiological statuses gathered and maintained by this system are very helpful for diagnosis and early warning. To improve the medical services and diagnosis accuracy, a Wireless Health Advanced Mobile Bio-diagnostic System (abbreviated as WHAM-BioS) is proposed. This study focuses on network/communication technology in the WHAM-BioS and proposes a novel clustered sensor network (CSN) architecture for long-term periodical telecare applications. In the proposed CSN architecture, most network functions are concentrated in a special purpose device called the human body gateway (HBG). The sensor nodes focus on detecting and reporting their detection results to their HBG. To reduce the design complexity and the implementation cost for the sensor nodes, the proposed architecture proposed several protocols to help each HBG to provide a contention free environment for their sensor nodes. The contention free environment significantly reduces the power consumption in data retransmission. Besides, to further reduce the power consumption of the sensor nodes, this study also proposes a power saving mechanism, which reduces the power consumption in idle listening. Based on the proposed network architecture and protocols, a prototype system is implemented
ISBN:9780769522814
0769522815
ISSN:1521-9097
DOI:10.1109/ICPADS.2005.262