WISTA: a wireless transmission system for disaster patient care

Yuechun Chu; Xin Huang; Aura  Ganz

2nd International ICST Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

WISTA: a wireless transmission system for disaster patient care

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    author={Yuechun Chu and Xin Huang and Aura  Ganz},
    title={WISTA: a wireless transmission system for disaster patient care},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Broadband Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
    year={2006},
    month={2},
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    doi={10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589721}
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Yuechun Chu
Xin Huang
Aura Ganz
Year: 2006
WISTA: a wireless transmission system for disaster patient care
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589721

Yuechun Chu¹^,*, Xin Huang¹^,*, Aura Ganz¹^,*

1: Multimedia Networks Laboratory, ECE Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA

*Contact email: ychu@ecs.umass.edu, xhuang@ecs.umass.edu , ganz@ecs.umass.edu

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a low-cost and easily setup wireless multimedia transmission system that can assist patient care during disasters. With real-time transfer of data from video cameras, sensors and display of information on the devices (PDAs, laptops) of EMT (Emergency Medical Team) from multiple disaster sites to the control center, the system enables disaster managers to quickly obtain patients' status information from the entire disaster area, to assist the diagnosis and treatment of patients, reducing mortality and morbidity in disaster situation. Moreover, the disaster managers in the command center can remotely control the information sent from the disaster sites. We have implemented the system prototype over the wireless network and successfully demonstrated simultaneous transmission of video, sensor information, medical image and text patient information from multiple disaster sites to the control center. The experiments conducted on the system prototype validate our system design

Published: 2006-02-13
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589721