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

• Autor(es): Fernández-López, Helena ; Afonso, José A. ; Correia, J. H. ; Simões, Ricardo
• Data: 2010
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/17462
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): HM4All; Vital signs monitoring; ZigBee; Wireless sensor networks
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.