Research Article
Communication in personal healthcare Issues using 802.15.4 for personal healthcare
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554381, author={Praveen Kumar and Thumparthy Viswanatha Rao}, title={Communication in personal healthcare Issues using 802.15.4 for personal healthcare}, proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on COMmunication System SoftWAre and MiddlewaRE}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={COMSWARE}, year={2008}, month={6}, keywords={Personal healthcare power efficiency frequency reuse factor channel utilization sensor networks}, doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554381} }- Praveen Kumar
Thumparthy Viswanatha Rao
Year: 2008
Communication in personal healthcare Issues using 802.15.4 for personal healthcare
COMSWARE
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554381
Abstract
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are planned to be deployed in critical applications like border surveillance, monitoring physical and chemical environmental phenomena, intelligent agriculture and personal healthcare. Theses days, researchers’ vision is to implant sensor nodes in the human body, which will monitor the biological parameters and report them to the patient and the doctor, when abnormalities are detected. However, due to the criticality of these applications a thorough evaluation of the existing standards and technologies for suitability is needed. This paper evaluates the existing technologies and standards designed for sensor networks from the perspective of a personal healthcare system. The main focus of this paper is to evaluate the power efficiency of the node and the channel reuse factor in different conditions. Proposals are also made towards improving the weaknesses.