A Health Monitoring System Based on Mobile Phone
Tong, Chao, Jianwei Niu, Jinfeng Zhang, Yan Zhang · ASME Press eBooks · 2011
Wireless sensor network is applied to many aspects of everyday life. In the field of medical service facilities and health care, wireless sensor networks can be effectively used in health monitoring to enhance the quality of life provided for the patients and also the quality of healthcare services. This paper proposed a health monitoring system. It is comprised of sensor nodes, mobile phone nodes equipped with Zigbee communication interfaces, cellular network, a server belonging to medical service institution and mobile devices such as PDAs or mobile phone nodes carried by physicians. Sensor nodes are responsible for measuring physiological data such...