A Hospital Healthcare Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

In a hospital health care monitoring system it is necessary to constantly monitor the patient's physiological parameters. For example a pregnant woman parameters such as blood pressure (BP) and heart rate of the woman and heart rate and movements of fetal to control their health condition. This paper presents a monitoring system that has the capability to monitor physiological parameters from multiple patient bodies. In the proposed system, a coordinator node has attached on patient body to collect all the signals from the wireless sensors and sends them to the base station. The attached sensors on patient's body form a wireless body sensor network (WBSN) and they are able to sense the heart rate, blood pressure and so on. This system can detect the abnormal conditions, issue an alarm to the patient and send a SMS/E-mail to the physician. Also, the proposed system consists of several wireless relay nodes which are responsible for relaying the data sent by the coordinator node and forward them to the base station. The main advantage of this system in comparison to previous systems is to reduce the energy consumption to prolong the network lifetime, speed up and extend the communication coverage to increase the freedom for enhance patient quality of life. We have developed this system in multi-patient architecture for hospital healthcare and compared it with the other existing networks based on multi-hop relay node in terms of coverage, energy consumption and speed.

Patient Health Management System Using E-Health Architechture in Wireless Sensor Networks(wsn)

“…Body sensor network systems can help people by providing healthcare services such as medical monitoring, memory enhancement, medical data access, and communication with the healthcare provider in emergency situations through the SMS or GPRS [2]. In the proposed system, using WSN and mobile devices the monitoring of patients can be achieved.…”

Routing and Security Issues in U-Healthcare Mobile, Ubiquitous and Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

“…Aminian et al, in [9] discussed the entire structure of a human sensor interconnected objects. This paper presents the idea of the treatment center that can be available everywhere for communication about the casualties.…”

Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks: The Technology

“…But it is important to note that, there are medical bands such as MICS (Medical Implant Communication Service), 10 meters of 402-405 MHz frequency band coverage that can be used for body area network applications because of their low power transmissions. [4] Tolentino and his team presented an architecture of a health system ubiquitous for continuous monitoring of patients in their natural physiological conditions or elderly patients with chronic diseases, the biggest difference it is designed to monitor the elderly who live in remote areas or in small nursing home without enough health technical support, instead of monitoring patients in a large hospital environment. This WSN ad hoc is used integrated with existing medical practices and technologies in real time remote monitoring to provide medication and a patient status monitoring system assisted by incorporated the wireless sensor.…”

“…In most systems, the health data of multiple patients may be resent using the wireless multi-jump routing scheme for a base station. [4] Already telemedicine systems can establish news protocols such as IEEE standards 802.11, 802.15 and 802.16, which are characterized by the distribution networks for medical information providing life-saving services. [5] Wireless sensors can be placed on patients in a hospital or homecare setting to gather physiological signals.…”