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 inUbiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence pp. 395 - 402
Main Authors Benferhat, Djamel, Guidec, Frédéric, Quinton, Patrice
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Cardiac Monitoring
Marathon Race
Marathon Runner
Monitoring Center
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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.
ISBN:3642353762
9783642353765
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_55