4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"

Research Article

Pervasive Health Monitoring Based on Internet of Things: Two Case Studies

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257395,
        author={Anurag Anurag and Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi and Amir-Mohammad Rahmani and Tomi Westerlund and Geng Yang and Pasi Liljeberg and Hannu Tenhunen},
        title={Pervasive Health Monitoring Based on  Internet of Things: Two Case Studies},
        proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
        year={2014},
        month={12},
        keywords={internet of things e-health zigbee wi-fi wireless sensor network (wsn) remote patient monitoring},
        doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257395}
    }
    
  • Anurag Anurag
    Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi
    Amir-Mohammad Rahmani
    Tomi Westerlund
    Geng Yang
    Pasi Liljeberg
    Hannu Tenhunen
    Year: 2014
    Pervasive Health Monitoring Based on Internet of Things: Two Case Studies
    MOBIHEALTH
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257395
Anurag Anurag1, Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi1, Amir-Mohammad Rahmani1,*, Tomi Westerlund1, Geng Yang2, Pasi Liljeberg1, Hannu Tenhunen1
  • 1: University of Turku, Finland
  • 2: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
*Contact email: amirah@utu.fi

Abstract

With the continuous evolution of wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT) various aspects of life will benefit. IoT based pervasive healthcare system has potential to provide error free medical data and alerting system in critical conditions with continuous monitoring. The system will minimize the need of dedicated medical personnel for patient monitoring and help the patients to lead a normal life besides providing them with high quality medical service. In this paper, we provide the implementation of IoT-based architectures for remote health monitoring based on two popular wireless technologies, Wi-Fi and ZigBee. We analyse the two architectures with the aim of identifying their pros and cons and discuss suitability of mentioned wireless communication technologies for different healthcare application domains.