Energy efficient intra-hospital multi-patient cardiac monitoring through ZigBee network

Author

Pathak, Shashwat ; Rashid, Tarique ; Kumar, Basant ; Kumar, Arvind

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Motilal Nehru Nat. Inst. of Technol., Allahabad, India

fYear

2015

fDate

19-20 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

400

Lastpage

404

Abstract

This paper presents an energy efficient intrahospital telemedicine scenario for multi-patient cardiac monitoring using ZigBee network. A telemedicine scenario is proposed in which Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals of patients are acquired through ECG sensor nodes having transmission capability and these ECG signals are received by Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) kept at nursing station through ZigBee network. ECG signals are further transmitted to Doctor´s PDA. Energy efficiency of proposed network is investigated by evaluating the performance of various routing protocols in terms of Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Battery life, Energy Consumption, End to End delay by varying the transmission power of ECG sensor nodes and for different routing protocols.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical telemetry; electrocardiography; medical computing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; ECG sensor node transmission power; ECG sensor nodes; ECG signals; ZigBee network; battery life; electrocardiogram; end-to-end delay; energy consumption; energy efficient intrahospital telemedicine scenario; multipatient cardiac monitoring; packet delivery ratio; personal digital assistant; Delays; Electrocardiography; Medical services; Monitoring; Routing; Routing protocols; Zigbee; AODV; DYMO; ECG; LANMAR; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), 2015 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Noida

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5990-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPIN.2015.7095394

Filename

7095394