Title :
A Personal Environment Monitoring System for Pulmonary Disease Management
Author :
Fu, Yongji ; Hallberg, Byran
Author_Institution :
Sharp Labs. of America, Camas, WA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4712-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2151-7614
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5516510
