Wireless Sensor Networks for medical care services

Driven by the demographic variation in population and degradation of health care quality, we have witnessed in the recent years the explosion of healthcare applications market in order to provide high quality care. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) seem to be an attractive technology to deploy this type of applications thanks to their advantages of simplicity of deployment, safe of use and reduced installation cost. In this paper we present a specific medical application on which we work in collaboration with the Henri Mondor University Hospital Center in France. This application aims to monitor patients´ physiological parameters and track their localizations within the hospital. We describe in this paper tests performed in our lab and analyze the first results of implementation of a sensor network platform.