Realistic Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks

Stankovic, John A.; Wood, Adrienne; He, Tian

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14849-1_25

Cited by 60 publications

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“…routers, devices to access to MiTags and a central server. [23] The company eHit is a Finnish company that provides services and technologies related to healthcare at a distance. It is one of the technologies of the Health Gateway, a platform which connects to a mobile device and a server.…”

Section: The Comparison Of Technologies Used In Wsn In Medical Applicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks: The Technology

Freitas¹,

Azevedo²

2016

World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Science

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-The increase in research in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSN) has brought a whole new meaning to medical devices. This is mainly due to advances in microcontroller technologies. The WSN are cited as one of the major technologies of this century and hence it assumes importance in areas such as health, psychology, fire prevention, security and even the military. The great advantage of this technology is the ability to track, monitor, study, understand and act on a particular phenomenon or event. The primary purpose of a wireless health system is reliable data transfer with minimum delay. This work is a synthesis of vast research done as Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks (WBSN), including experimental and non-experimental investigations as well as data from the theoretical and empirical literature which incorporates a wide range of purposes: definition of concepts, review theories and evidence analysis of methodological problems, seeking to generate a consistent and understandable overview of WBSN. Such systems are already being marketed, some are still under investigation. It is also the aim of this study to identify the characteristics of a WSN applied to health.

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Section: The Comparison Of Technologies Used In Wsn In Medical Applicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks: The Technology

Freitas¹,

Azevedo²

2016

World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Science

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“…This continues to be an area of active research, exemplified by new solutions such as AlarmNet from the University of Virginia (Stankovic et al, 2011).…”

Section: Sensing Context In Health Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Body-Worn, Ambient, and Consumer Sensing for Health Applications

McGrath¹,

Scanaill²

2013

Sensor Technologies

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There has been increasing momentum, particularly in the last decade, for new healthcare sensing and monitoring devices, driven in part by advances in sensor and sensor system technologies, which are delivering greater capabilities at economically viable costs. Moreover, global demographics are driving a significant rethink in the way we deliver healthcare. The cost of healthcare will continue to rise unabated, to economically unaffordable levels, unless we change our current approach. Technology affords greater flexibility in clinical protocols and enables the new consumer healthcare market. Sensing and sensor technologies play a key role at the center of healthcare innovation, and will continue to enable that innovation into the future as they integrate with a range of other information and communications technologies (ICT) to deliver exciting new capabilities.As new sensing technologies, such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), biochemical, and immunological sensors continue to emerge, their proliferation into healthcare will continue to accelerate. Sensing will enable regular or continuous monitoring of health status, which will in turn enable the delivery of new proactive models of care. In the longer term, patient outcomes should improve, because issues will be identified earlier, when interventions can be more effective and less costly. Continuous monitoring solutions have already emerged in the telehealth space for monitoring chronic conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF), and diabetes. Such monitoring provides continuous observation of disease state, which is valuable for anticipating and avoiding the physical and financial cost of acute episodes. Treating patients after an acute episode-which is the current reactive model of care-can result in catastrophic and irreversible changes in a person's health and well-being and lead to accelerated decline. Over time, sensing will also be applied to screening the general population as part of national healthcare programs to improve public health. Individuals, particularly the increasing number of "worried well" individuals (those who are healthy but are worried about becoming ill and seek reassurance by visiting their doctor, testing themselves, or taking medication when there is no medical reason to do so), are also likely to utilize sensing technology to proactively monitor and maintain their own health.As pervasive sensing becomes the norm in healthcare, it will significantly increase our knowledge about disease risk and the effectiveness of interventions. Existing technology-based solutions are currently helping us to better understand the aging process, including identifying early signs of cognitive decline, frailty, motor and neurological issues. Sensor technologies enable a fresh look at healthcare at the individual level by building a detailed understanding of changes in a person's health status. This data provides the early warning signs for issues that most affect health and well-being. Ch...

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“…As a result, a wide range of tiny sensors-mechanical, thermal, biological, chemical, optical and magnetic sensors-is being designed to perform various tasks [2]. Due to the versatile uses of sensor nodes, the applications of WSNs are found in military surveillance, home medical care and environmental science [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

Security Property Validation of the Sensor Network Encryption Protocol (SNEP)

Islam

2015

Computers

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Since wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been designed to be deployed in an unsecured, public environment, secured communication is really vital for their wide-spread use. Among all of the communication protocols developed for WSN, the Security Protocols for Sensor Networks (SPINS) is exceptional, as it has been designed with security as a goal. SPINS is composed of two building blocks: Secure Network Encryption Protocol (SNEP) and the "micro" version of the Timed Efficient Streaming Loss-tolerant Authentication (TESLA), named µTESLA. From the inception of SPINS, a number of efforts have been made to validate its security properties. In this paper, we have validated the security properties of SNEP by using an automated security protocol validation tool, named AVISPA. Using the protocol specification language, HLPSL, we model two combined scenarios-node to node key agreement and counter exchange protocols-followed by data transmission. Next, we validate the security properties of these combined protocols, using different AVISPA back-ends. AVISPA reports the models we have developed free from attacks. However, by analyzing the key distribution sub-protocol, we find one threat of a potential DoS attack that we have demonstrated by modeling in AVISPA. Finally, we propose a modification, and AVISPA reports this modified version free from the potential DoS attack.

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Realistic Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 60 publications

References 44 publications

Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks: The Technology

Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks: The Technology

Body-Worn, Ambient, and Consumer Sensing for Health Applications

Security Property Validation of the Sensor Network Encryption Protocol (SNEP)

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