TY - GEN
T1 - Wireless biomonitor for ambient assisted living
AU - O'Flynn, B.
AU - Angove, P.
AU - Barton, J.
AU - Gonzalez, A.
AU - O'Donoghue, J.
AU - Herbert, J.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The 1990s has been the era of the personal computer and the mobile phone with the resulting large-scale integration of IT and communications providing vast processing power and accessibility to information and people. The next decade will see the emergence of intelligent sensors and their widespread deployment throughout our environment, dramatically improving the quality of our daily lives in terms of our health, security, comfort and entertainment. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will enable point-of-care-diagnostics and provide the data input to e-health management systems that will allow significant enhancement of health care programmes. They will also support the evolution of wearable medical devices aimed at improving the fitness and general well-being of the individual. This paper discusses the development, design characterization and test of a miniaturised wireless, wearable blood pressure and ECG monitor developed at the Tyndall National Institute for medical applications. This wireless platform is incorporated with the Data Management System (DMS) architecture which aims to optimise accurate data delivery within a WSN medical environment. Good data management infrastructures within a medical environment help improve productivity levels for medical practitioners, and can improve patient diagnosis.
AB - The 1990s has been the era of the personal computer and the mobile phone with the resulting large-scale integration of IT and communications providing vast processing power and accessibility to information and people. The next decade will see the emergence of intelligent sensors and their widespread deployment throughout our environment, dramatically improving the quality of our daily lives in terms of our health, security, comfort and entertainment. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will enable point-of-care-diagnostics and provide the data input to e-health management systems that will allow significant enhancement of health care programmes. They will also support the evolution of wearable medical devices aimed at improving the fitness and general well-being of the individual. This paper discusses the development, design characterization and test of a miniaturised wireless, wearable blood pressure and ECG monitor developed at the Tyndall National Institute for medical applications. This wireless platform is incorporated with the Data Management System (DMS) architecture which aims to optimise accurate data delivery within a WSN medical environment. Good data management infrastructures within a medical environment help improve productivity levels for medical practitioners, and can improve patient diagnosis.
KW - Ambient assisted living
KW - Biomonitor
KW - Data management system (DMS)
KW - Wearable wireless sensor network
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:58449105582
SN - 8392117263
SN - 9788392117261
T3 - ICSES'06 - International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, Proceedings
SP - 257
EP - 260
BT - ICSES'06 - International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, Proceedings
T2 - International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, ICSES'06
Y2 - 17 September 2006 through 20 September 2006
ER -