Continuous monitoring of vital constants for mobile users: the MobiHealth approach

Author

Konstantas, Dimitri ; Herzog, Rainer

Author_Institution

Center for Telematics & Inf. Technol., Twente Univ., Enschede, Netherlands

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

3728

Abstract

MobiHealth aims at introducing new mobile value-added services in the area of mobile healthcare, based on 2.5 (GPRS) and 3G (UMTS) technologies. This is achieved by the integration of sensors and actuators to a Wireless Body Area Network (BAN). These sensors and actuators continuously measure and transmit vital constants along with voice and images/video to health service providers and brokers, improving on one side the life of patients and allowing on the other side the introduction of new value-added services in the areas of disease prevention and diagnostic, remote assistance, para-health services, physical state monitoring (sports) and even clinical research. Furthermore, the MobiHealth BAN system supports the fast and reliable application of remote assistance in case of accidents by allowing the paramedics to send reliable vital constants data as well as audio and video directly from the accident site. Trials are underway focusing on home care, trauma care and ambulatory monitoring.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; actuators; biomedical communication; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; health care; medical signal processing; mobile radio; packet radio networks; patient monitoring; radio equipment; wireless sensor networks; MobiHealth approach; UMTS; accidents; actuators; continuous monitoring; diagnosis; disease prevention; general packet radio service; mobile healthcare; mobile users; para-health services; paramedics; physical state monitoring; remote assistance; sensors; sports; wireless body area network; 3G mobile communication; Accidents; Actuators; Area measurement; Body sensor networks; Ground penetrating radar; Image sensors; Medical services; Remote monitoring; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280970

Filename

1280970