Research Article
HM4All: A vital signs monitoring system based in spatially distributed ZigBee networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8836, author={Helena Fernandez-Lopez and Jose A. Afonso and J. H. Correia and Ricardo Simoes}, title={HM4All: A vital signs monitoring system based in spatially distributed ZigBee networks}, proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2010}, month={6}, keywords={HM4All; Vital signals monitoring; ZigBee; wirelesssensor networks.}, doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8836} }
- Helena Fernandez-Lopez
Jose A. Afonso
J. H. Correia
Ricardo Simoes
Year: 2010
HM4All: A vital signs monitoring system based in spatially distributed ZigBee networks
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8836
Abstract
Low power consumption and small footprint make ZigBee based devices well suited for personal healthcare applications, being a promising alternative to general care patient monitoring. However, their use in a healthcare facility to monitor several mobile patients poses several difficulties, mainly because this protocol was primarily designed to operate in low data rate scenarios. This paper introduces HM4All, a remote vital signs monitoring system, and presents a prototype system being deployed in a hospital internment floor. Its architecture, original network topology, software applications and wireless sensors are described.
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