ZigBee mobility management for Multipurpose Patient Monitoring system

Author

Tung, H.C. ; Rakocevic, Veselin ; Tsang, K.F. ; Lai, L.L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Math. Sci., City Univ. London, London, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

8460

Lastpage

8465

Abstract

A Multipurpose Patient Monitoring system embedded with a new ZigBee mobile application profile is proposed and developed. This system enables the mobility of ZigBee devices. The usage, the architecture and the mobility framework are discussed in details. It saves people life by providing panic button and location tracking service. A case study based on the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital is also presented and findings are given. This investigation reveals that the developed mobile application profile offers promising value-added services for many potential ZigBee applications.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical communication; health care; medical computing; mobile computing; mobile handsets; mobility management (mobile radio); patient monitoring; Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital; ZigBee device mobility; ZigBee mobile application profile; ZigBee mobility management; architecture framework; location tracking service; mobility framework; multipurpose patient monitoring system; panic button; value-added services; Hospitals; Mobile communication; Patient monitoring; Throughput; Zigbee; ZigBee; address assignment; mobile application profile;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2013.6700552

Filename

6700552