Title :
Wearable sensors and component-based design for home health care
Author :
Warren, Steve ; Yao, Jianchu ; Barnes, G. Edward
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA
Abstract :
Recent technology trends indicate that truly cost-effective home health care systems of the future will be constructed from distributed, plug-and-play, commodity components assembled on-the-fly to match the needs of a given patient. This paper describes early efforts in the Medical Component Design Laboratory: a research and teaching laboratory where component technologies developed for research will support student projects in closely related engineering courses. Two component-based prototypes are presented in this paper: a Bluetooth-enabled personal monitoring system and a plug-and-play pulse oximeter.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; biomedical communication; biomedical transducers; oximetry; patient care; patient monitoring; Bluetooth-enabled personal monitoring system; Medical Component Design Laboratory; closely related engineering courses; commodity components; component technologies; component-based design; home health care; plug-and-play; pulse oximeter; student projects support; teaching laboratory; technology trends; wearable sensors; Assembly systems; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical monitoring; Design engineering; Education; Laboratories; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Wearable sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053069
