A network of collaborative sensors for the monitoring of COPD patients in their daily life

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) reduces airflow in and out of the lungs, causing dyspnea during physical exercises. Therefore it is interesting to monitor the blood saturation during a physical exercise. Such monitoring can benefit from a network of collaborative sensors. But to monitor the patient in his daily life, it is mandatory that the system can be used autonomously at the patient´s home. We therefore propose a system composed of multiple wirelessly interconnected medical sensors, and a master device to acquire medical data in daily life or in supervised medical exams.