Evaluation of 802.15.4 WPAN for patient monitoring

Author

Kritsotaki, Angeliki ; Perakis, Konstantinos ; Koutsouris, Dimitris

Author_Institution

Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2010

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Homecare services have started adopting - during the last few years - a new provision model, based on wireless technologies, in order to support healthcare provision decentralisation and eInclusion. However, this new homecare service provision model raises several issues regarding the credibility of the data transmitted. From the plethora of available technologies to support the formulation of WPAN for homecare, literature has shown that IEEE 802.15.4 is probably the most suitable. The scope of the current paper is to evaluate the performance of an 802.15.4 star network under the interference of an 802.11 wireless network in real life conditions and for varied network traffic for homecare telemedicine services.

Keywords

data communication; health care; patient monitoring; personal area networks; telemedicine; IEEE 802.15.4; WPAN; data transmission; eInclusion; healthcare provision decentralisation; homecare services; homecare telemedicine services; patient monitoring; wireless technologies; Biological system modeling; Biomedical monitoring; Heart; Lead; Monitoring; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Corfu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6559-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687788

Filename

5687788