Cardiac Monitoring of Marathon Runners Using Disruption-Tolerant Wireless Sensors
In most current biomedical monitoring applications, data acquired by sensors attached to a patient are either transmitted directly to a monitoring console for real-time processing, or they are simply recorded on the sensor unit for deferred analysis. In contrast collecting and transmitting biomedica...
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Published in | Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence pp. 395 - 402 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Subjects | |
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Summary: | In most current biomedical monitoring applications, data acquired by sensors attached to a patient are either transmitted directly to a monitoring console for real-time processing, or they are simply recorded on the sensor unit for deferred analysis. In contrast collecting and transmitting biomedical data continuously over long distances in outdoor conditions is still a challenge. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using disruption-tolerant wireless sensors to monitor the cardiac activity of runners during a marathon race, using off-the-shelf sensing devices and a limited number of base stations deployed along the marathon route. Preliminary experiments conducted with a few volunteers running around a university campus confirm that this approach is viable, and suggest that it should scale up to a real marathon. |
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ISBN: | 3642353762 9783642353765 |
ISSN: | 0302-9743 1611-3349 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_55 |