Home healthcare platform based on wireless sensor networks

As the worldpsilas aged population grows many governments are looking to remote healthcare monitoring solutions. With the recent active research activities in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), the development and realization of a light-weighted, low-cost and wireless home healthcare monito...

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Published in2008 International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine pp. 263 - 266
Main Authors Li Xuemei, Jiang Liangzhong, Li Jincheng
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2008
Subjects
Aging
Biomedical monitoring
Biosensors
Government
Medical services
Microcontrollers
Operating systems
Remote monitoring
Sensor systems
Wireless sensor networks
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ISBN9781424422548
142442254X
ISSN2168-2194
DOI10.1109/ITAB.2008.4570656

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Summary:As the worldpsilas aged population grows many governments are looking to remote healthcare monitoring solutions. With the recent active research activities in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), the development and realization of a light-weighted, low-cost and wireless home healthcare monitor has become feasible. A novel embedded remote healthcare system based on a commercially available wireless biomedical sensor networks is proposed in this paper. The sensor node device utilizes MSP430 microcontroller and operates on TinyOS operating system. The wireless communication between the sensor nodes and the care base-station used IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee standard. The biophysical signal from elder is detected and radioed to a care base-station for monitoring.
ISBN:9781424422548
142442254X
ISSN:2168-2194
DOI:10.1109/ITAB.2008.4570656