WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SENSOR NETWORKS FOR REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING
Helena Fernández-López · 2010
ZigBee-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a promising alternative to cabled systems for patient monitoring in hospitals. However, the low data rate protocols provided by IEEE 802.15.4 poses several challenges, mainly because its protocols were primarily designed to operate in low traffic load scenarios and some vital signs sensors generate a large volume of data. This work aims on understanding the potential offered by low power radio technologies applied to patient health monitoring under several scenarios and, additionally, examine usability, financial, ethical and social issues related to the interaction of different actors (hospital managers, caregivers, patients and their families) in the medical environment and the system.