Wireless sensor network-based smart room system for healthcare monitoring

Author

Arnil, Jetsada ; Punsawad, Yunyong ; Wongsawat, Yodchanan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Mahidol Univ., Nakorn Pathom, Thailand

fYear

2011

Firstpage

2073

Lastpage

2076

Abstract

In this paper, the utilization of Zigbee as wireless sensor network (WSN) for medical application is demonstrated. The combination of various topologies is used to configure wireless sensors network to achieve high efficiency network architecture in medicine. The network consists of center coordinator, routers and sensor nodes. Mesh network is used for the connection between coordinator and router for range expansion. A performance of the proposed modality is tested in the normal situation. Besides, the architecture of the smart room systems is also proposed for healthcare monitoring. Physiological data and signal are transmitted using Xbee which is a wireless device operated in unlicensed radio frequency bands.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical equipment; health care; intelligent sensors; mesh generation; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; Xbee; Zigbee; center coordinator; healthcare monitoring; high efficiency network architecture; medical application; medicine; mesh network; physiological data; range expansion; routers; sensor nodes; signal transmission; unlicensed radio frequency bands; wireless sensor network-based smart room system; Medical services; Monitoring; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Karon Beach, Phuket

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2136-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181597

Filename

6181597