SPARTAN: A framework for Smart Phone Assisted Real-Time Health care Network design

Leveraging body area sensor network (BASN) for health care is a very promising application domain for wireless sensor networks. In a typical BASN health care application, usually, bio-sensors and environmental-sensors connect to a local Preprocessing Unit (PU) first, e.g., a smartphone or a laptop, which in turn extracts the meaningful data and performs necessary processing before the PU transmits the data to a Central Server (CS). In this procedure, we realized the system designers have to work on many repeated jobs in different BASN systems. Even worse, changing one component of the system usually requires designers to rewrite a large portion of code. In this paper, we present a Smart Phone Assisted Real-Time heAlth care Network framework (SPARTAN), to simplify the development procedure and extend the flexibility of BASN systems. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of SPARTAN, we implement a smartphone assisted stressor examination and warning system. The experimental results show that the SPARTAN framework can reduce the workload with low overhead and simplify several procedures such as replacing the sensor or changing the sensor configuration.