Customizing 6LoWPAN networks towards Internet-of-Things based ubiquitous healthcare systems

Author

Gia, Tuan Nguyen ; Thanigaivelan, Nanda Kumar ; Rahmani, Amir-Mohammad ; Westerlund, Tomi ; Liljeberg, Pasi ; Tenhunen, Hannu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Turku, Turku, Finland

fYear

2014

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Embedded devices with enhanced communication capabilities, Internet of Things (IoT), are able to perform a wide variety of different tasks at present. One rapidly increasing application domain is healthcare. In this paper, we present an IoT-based architecture and system implementation for healthcare applications. The presented IoT-based system provides a cost-effective and easy way to analyze and monitor, either remotely or on the spot, real-time health data such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electromyography (EMG) data. Health data is transmitted by utilizing IPv6 over low power wireless area networks (6LoWPAN). Our efficient customization of the 6LoWPAN network for health data provides energy efficient and reliable transmission in different scenarios that is required in several healthcare applications.

Keywords

Internet of Things; biomedical communication; health care; medical computing; personal area networks; ubiquitous computing; 6LoWPAN networks; ECG; EMG; IPv6 over low power wireless personal area networks; Internet protocol; Internet-of-Things; IoT-based architecture; electrocardiogram data; electromyography data; ubiquitous health care system; Batteries; Logic gates; Medical services; Power demand; Sensors; Servers; Wireless sensor networks; 6LoWPAN; Internet of Things; Remote Patient Monitoring; Wireless Sensor Network (WSN); e-Health;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

NORCHIP, 2014

Conference_Location

Tampere

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NORCHIP.2014.7004716

Filename

7004716