Title :
A robust wearable health monitoring system based on WSN
Author :
Young Hwan Kim ; Kuk-Jin Jang ; Seung-Chul Lee ; Chang Won Park ; Hee Yong Youn
Author_Institution :
Med. IT Conversions Center, Korea Electron. Technol. Inst., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
Health monitoring system is one of most important and practical applications of wireless sensor network (WSN). Even though various health monitoring devices based on WSN are used, they are still quite limited in the sense of mobility and accuracy. In this paper a new wearable health monitoring system is proposed, which consists of bio-shirt and vital sensor node. Here the accuracy of the measurement of electrocardiogram signal is enhanced, and the sensor node is optimized for the use in WSN. Also, a multi-hop routing protocol is employed to effectively deal with rapid changes in the link between a fast moving target node and static relay nodes. The experiments for various types of movements of an individual wearing the proposed bio-shirt reveal that the proposed system significantly improves the performance of health monitoring based on WSN compared to the existing device.
Keywords :
electrocardiography; radiotelemetry; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; WSN; bioshirt sensor node; electrocardiogram signal measurement; health monitoring devices; multihop routing protocol; robust wearable health monitoring system; vital sensor node; wireless sensor network; Adaptive filters; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Finite impulse response filters; Wireless sensor networks; Wearable health monitoring; adaptive filter; eletrocardiogram signal; multi-hop routing; wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3131-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCNC.2013.6488460
