A Health Care System Based on PLC and Zigbee

Author

Xi Xueliang ; Tao Cheng ; Fang Xingyuan

Author_Institution

Modern Telecommun. Inst., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

3063

Lastpage

3066

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent remote health care system based on powerline communication (PLC) networks and Zigbee. It consists of a set of physiological sensors, a Zigbee/PLC gateway connected to sensors wirelessly and special software in the controlling center. Physiological data collected by sensors will be transmitted via Zigbee/PLC networks to the controlling center where the data is stored, analyzed and present to users in a visual way. First, there is an overview about PLC and Zigbee techniques. Second, system architecture of the health care system is proposed. Then, we focus on the details about the individual subsystems. We also describe the network protocols, working process and application of the system.

Keywords

biomedical communication; carrier transmission on power lines; health care; medical computing; physiology; protocols; wireless sensor networks; Zigbee wireless sensor network; intelligent remote health care system; network protocols; physiological sensors; powerline communication networks; Communication system control; Costs; Energy consumption; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Monitoring; Programmable control; Protocols; Sensor systems; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2007.761

Filename

4340536