Wireless network for health monitoring: heart rate and temperature sensor

Author

Kioumars, Amir Hoshang ; Tang, Liqiong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Adv. Technol., Massey Univ., Palmerston North, New Zealand

fYear

2011

fDate

Nov. 28 2011-Dec. 1 2011

Firstpage

362

Lastpage

369

Abstract

In the field of human health, collecting real-time data is vital. A system that can remotely monitor heart rate and body temperature is presented in this paper. The data was collected from a group of volunteers using the sensors developed by the research team to test the system. The Arduino micro-controller is programmed to transmit the data securely to a remote PC station using an XBee wireless network for display and storage. Power consumption by the system was minimized by activating the sensors when a command from a remote PC is received.

Keywords

Zigbee; bioMEMS; biosensors; body sensor networks; cardiology; microcontrollers; microsensors; power consumption; real-time systems; temperature sensors; Arduino microcontroller; PC station; XBee wireless network; body temperature; health monitoring; human health; monitor heart rate; power consumption; real-time data collection; temperature sensor; Equations; Hardware; Heart rate; Low pass filters; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Arduino micro-controller; Heart rate sensor; Mean body temperature; Temperature sensor; ZigBee wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensing Technology (ICST), 2011 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palmerston North

ISSN

2156-8065

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0168-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSensT.2011.6137000

Filename

6137000