A Wireless Body Sensor Network for Different Health Related Applications

We present an application of an open source platform for wireless body sensor network called DexterNet to the problem of monitoring different subjects. The architecture of the system consists of three layers. At the body sensor layer (BSL), the integrated monitoring of a person´s activities, geographic location, and air pollution exposures occurs. At the personal network layer (PNL), a wireless mobile device worn by the person summarizes the sensed data, and provides information feedback. The mobile device communicates wirelessly over the Internet with the third global network layer (GNL), in which a web server provides the following four information services: a clinical module that supports the healthcare management of different health problems cases, a personal health module that supports individual prevention of some health symptoms, a community module that supports participatory sensing, and a health research module that supports the collection of anonymous sensor data for research into the risk factors associated with the given health issues. We illustrate the potential for the system to serve as a comprehensive strategy to manage different health cases .