Biomedical Monitoring of Non-hospitalized Subjects Using Disruption-Tolerant Wireless Sensors

The proliferation of private, corporate and community Wi-Fi hotspots in city centers and residential areas opens up new opportunities for the collection of biomedical data produced by sensors carried by mobile non-hospitalized subjects. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using these man...

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Published inWireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare pp. 11 - 19
Main Authors Guidec, Frédéric, Benferhat, Djamel, Quinton, Patrice
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
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biomedical monitoring
delay/disruption-tolerant networking
sensor networking
wireless networking
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Summary:The proliferation of private, corporate and community Wi-Fi hotspots in city centers and residential areas opens up new opportunities for the collection of biomedical data produced by sensors carried by mobile non-hospitalized subjects. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using these many hotspots as gateways for biomedical data transmission. A disruption-tolerant application is presented, that can record biomedical data while the subject is not in the range of a Wi-Fi hotspot, and upload recorded data to a remote monitoring center whenever a hotspot is located nearby. Results of a field trial are presented, with a scenario involving a subject wearing an ECG-enabled sensor, walking in the streets of a residential area.
ISBN:3642378927
9783642378928
ISSN:1867-8211
1867-822X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_2