HM4A11 : a vital signs monitoring system based in spatially distributed ZigBee ...

• Author(s): Fernández-López, Helena ; Afonso, José A. ; Correia, J. H. ; Simões, Ricardo
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/17462
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): HM4All; Vital signs monitoring; ZigBee; Wireless sensor networks
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Low power consumption and small footprint make ZigBee based devices well suited for personal healthcare applications, being a promising alternative to general care patient monitoring. However, their use in a healthcare facility to monitor several mobile patients poses several difficulties, mainly because this protocol was primarily designed to operate in low data rate scenarios. This paper introduces HM4All, a remote vital signs monitoring system, and presents a prototype system being deployed in a hospital internment floor. Its architecture, original network topology, software applications and wireless sensors are described.