A Personal Environment Monitoring System for Pulmonary Disease Management

Author

Fu, Yongji ; Hallberg, Byran

Author_Institution

Sharp Labs. of America, Camas, WA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A portable system to monitor environmental factors of pulmonary diseases is introduced in this paper. Disease triggers including temperature, humidity and airborne particles are continuously measured in real time. Data is transferred to a handheld device through a wireless body area network (BAN). If target triggers of disease are detected, the system will provide alarms and instructions to the patient to avoid exacerbation, prevent emergency room visits and improve the patient´s quality of life.

Keywords

aerosols; biomedical equipment; body area networks; diseases; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; airborne particles; disease triggers; environmental factors monitoring; humidity; personal environment monitoring system; pulmonary disease management; temperature; wireless body area network; Air pollution; Body sensor networks; Centralized control; Disaster management; Diseases; Environmental factors; Environmental management; Humidity; Patient monitoring; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5516510

Filename

5516510