Biomedical sensor network for cardiovascular fitness and activity monitoring

This paper describes a prototype model for cardiovascular activity and fitness monitoring system based on IEEE 11073 family of standard for medical device communication. It identifies basic requirements for developing a biomedical sensor network having resource limited sensor nodes to acquire, retrieve and communicate various physiological parameters while using short range wireless technologies. IEEE 11073-10441 defines the set of protocols for tele-health environment at application layer and rest of the communication infrastructure is covered by the medical grade ZigBee network. In healthcare, space ZigBee provides an industry-wide standard for exchanging data between a variety of medical and non-medical devices and ZigBee enabled medical devices are fully compatible with ISO/IEEE 11073 for point-of-care medical device communication. The proposed prototype model addresses design and development issues required to report any severe cardiovascular malfunctioning without compromising mobility and convenience of the patient.