Title :
Medical MoteCare: A Distributed Personal Healthcare Monitoring System
Author :
Navarro, Karla Felix ; Lawrence, Elaine ; Lim, Brian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Commun., Univ. of Technol. Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
Medical MoteCare is a health monitoring system prototype suitable for monitoring the elderly and the infirm. The system utilizes a wireless sensor network of MicaZ motes equipped with pulse oximeter sensors and environmental sensors, namely temperature and light. The system is based on the adaptation of three-tier and SNMP proxy network management organizational model. A key feature of the system is the use of two proprietary network management tools to monitor personal health parameters and provide timely alerts when thresholds are reached.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; health care; patient monitoring; telecommunication network management; wireless sensor networks; SNMP proxy network management organizational model; distributed personal healthcare monitoring system; medical MoteCare; three-tier network; wireless sensor network; Biomedical monitoring; Condition monitoring; Medical services; Medical tests; Open source software; Risk management; Senior citizens; Sensor systems; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Body Area Networks; Data Correlation; Network Management; SNMP; Wireless Sensor Networks; mHealth Monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, 2009. eTELEMED '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3360-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3532-6
DOI :
10.1109/eTELEMED.2009.19
