Patient Vital Signs Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks | The NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center at Rutgers

Title	Patient Vital Signs Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	Chen, B, Varkey, JP, Pompili, D, Li, JK, Marsic, I
Conference Name	Proc. of IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference
Date Published	March
Conference Location	New York, NY, USA
Abstract	Today hospitals are equipped with many electronic trans- mitting devices, which results in electromagnetic interference that may impair wireless transmissions between medical devices. On the other hand, reliable and continuous collection via wireless communications of patient vital signs such as blood pressure and flow, core temperature, ECG, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is crucial for making real-time triage decisions. Hence, a novel wireless communication solution that seamlessly supports patient mobility and that prioritizes vital signs transmission using Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is developed, implemented in TinyOS, and tested on Shimmer biomedical wireless sensor motes.

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