Research Article
Wireless patient monitoring: reliability and power management
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589720, author={Upkar Varshney and Sweta Sneha}, title={Wireless patient monitoring: reliability and power management}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Broadband Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={BROADNETS}, year={2006}, month={2}, keywords={}, doi={10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589720} }- Upkar Varshney
Sweta Sneha
Year: 2006
Wireless patient monitoring: reliability and power management
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589720
Abstract
Wireless and mobile technologies are finding a role in patient monitoring in diverse environments including hospitals and nursing homes. However, the quality and reliability of patient monitoring have not been highly satisfactory due to unpredictable and spotty coverage of infrastructure-oriented wireless networks such as wide-area cellular networks and wireless LANs. Recently, the use of ad hoc wireless networks among mobile and wearable devices for patient monitoring has been proposed. Although very exciting, there are many challenges in using ad hoc wireless networks for patient monitoring including how to support reliable patient monitoring and how to manage power transmission from patients' devices. In this paper, we provide several solutions for enhancing the reliability of patient monitoring and for improving the power management of devices in normal and emergency messages transmission. We are currently evaluating the performance of the proposed solutions and protocols, and the results will be presented at the workshop
