Design of medical wireless location network based on Zigbee protocol

Author

Haifeng Li ; Jingtao Zhen ; Yan Zhang ; Lei Chen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng., Tianjin Univ. of Commerce, Tianjin

fYear

2007

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

709

Lastpage

712

Abstract

A medical wireless location network based on Zigbee/IEEE802.15.4 is issued. The blood pressure values and location information of inpatients could be obtained and handled in time via the wireless network. The kernel chip of the system hardware is CC2430/2431. To calculate the position of mobile sensor nodes, the Location Engine of CC2431 implements a distributed computation algorithm that uses received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values from known reference nodes. This network is a typical location application of Zigbee network.

Keywords

blood pressure measurement; computerised instrumentation; distributed algorithms; mobile radio; patient monitoring; patient treatment; protocols; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; CC2430/2431; IEEE802.15.4; Zigbee protocol; blood pressure value; distributed computation algorithm; inpatient location information; kernel chip; location engine; medical wireless location network; mobile sensor node; received signal strength indicator value; CC2431; Wireless sensor network; Zigbee; location;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Wireless, Mobile and Sensor Networks, 2007. (CCWMSN07). IET Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-836-5

Type

conf

Filename

4786301