Monitoring vital signs and location of patients by using ZigBee wireless sensor networks

Author

Gutiérrez, Raquel ; Fernández, Samuel ; García, J. Jesús ; García, J. Carlos ; Marnane, Liam

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., Univ. of Alcala, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1221

Lastpage

1224

Abstract

This work proposes a WWBAN (Wearable Wireless Body Area Network) for patients and its localization by means of a Zigbee-based LPS (Local Positioning System). To carry out both systems a mote has been used. This mote is a device composed by a microcontroller, some sensors and some communication modules. The WWBAN is used to measure user movement and heart rate, save it and send it to a remote device. For the LPS implementation, a set of ZigBee beacons is used. All the data from WWBAN and LPS are sent through a Bluetooth link to a mobile phone.

Keywords

Bluetooth; Zigbee; biomedical communication; body area networks; electrocardiography; mobility management (mobile radio); patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; Bluetooth link; WWBAN; ZigBee; communication module; local positioning system; mobile phone; patient location; vital sign monitoring; wearable wireless body area network; wireless sensor networks; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Educational institutions; Heart rate variability; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensors, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Limerick

ISSN

1930-0395

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9290-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127257

Filename

6127257