Title :
Energy-efficient ambulatory activity monitoring for disease management
Author :
Aroul, A. L Praveen ; Bhatia, Dinesh ; Estevez, Leonardo
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Abstract :
Technology assisted health and disease management has a potential of producing high quality life in various segments of population. A wireless sensor network (WSN) based system for sensing and reporting ambulatory activity for patients is presented in this paper. It is demonstrated that by proper use of architectures for supporting WSNs and by exploiting very recent technological advances, it is now possible to build and deploy extremely energy efficient systems with very long and dependable battery life. The system evolves over most existing approaches by highly localizing the computations for detecting events and intermittently transmitting data related to activities. The paper describes design of the system and analysis for energy efficiency.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; biomedical equipment; health care; microsensors; patient monitoring; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; data transmission; dependable battery life; disease management; energy efficient systems; energy-efficient ambulatory activity monitoring; event detection; health management; wireless sensor network; Batteries; Computer architecture; Diseases; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Event detection; Patient monitoring; Quality management; Technology management; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor network; Zigbee; battery life; low power RF; remote monitoring; tele-medicine;
Conference_Titel :
Medical Devices and Biosensors, 2008. ISSS-MDBS 2008. 5th International Summer School and Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2252-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2253-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISSMDBS.2008.4575053
