Protocol Analysis of Ubiquitous Sensor Networks with Health Care Monitoring and Surveillance
David C. Dahlin, G. Hjartarson · 2013
As the population grows and people live longer, the demand of health care will increase. Visits to the hospital are exhausting and time consuming, especially for patients with long term diseases. The long term disease patients and elderly take up the largest part of the hospital resources and when the knowledge of sensor networks is improving and the communication channels are getting more reliable, the need for visiting the hospital in order to do a simple measurement can be reduced. Many measurements and even some monitoring activities can therefore be done at home instead of taking time and resources from the hospitals. Not only can this prove to be beneficial in terms of cost, but also when it comes to produce new services and business models. This thesis is about implementing such a feature in an existing sensor network that is being used mainly for home security. It will present a test implementation, or a proof of concept that it is possible to send arbitrary data at the time being and it will also compare the existing sensor network protocol with other sub gigahertz sensor network protocols. Furthermore the thesis will address a system model based on the standard ISO/IEEE 11073 PHD to make it possible to co-exist with manufacturers of different health devices.