Monitoring vital signs and location of patients by using ZigBee wireless sensor networks

  • Raquel Gutiérrez
  • , Samuel Fernández
  • , J. Jesús García
  • , J. Carlos Garcia
  • , Liam Marnane

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Abstract

This work proposes a WWBAN (Wearable Wireless Body Area Network) for patients and its localization by means of a Zigbee-based LPS (Local Positioning System). To carry out both systems a mote has been used. This mote is a device composed by a microcontroller, some sensors and some communication modules. The WWBAN is used to measure user movement and heart rate, save it and send it to a remote device. For the LPS implementation, a set of ZigBee beacons is used. All the data from WWBAN and LPS are sent through a Bluetooth link to a mobile phone.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Sensors 2011 Conference, SENSORS 2011
Pages1221-1224
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event10th IEEE SENSORS Conference 2011, SENSORS 2011 - Limerick, Ireland
Duration: 28 Oct 201131 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Sensors

Conference

Conference10th IEEE SENSORS Conference 2011, SENSORS 2011
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityLimerick
Period28/10/1131/10/11

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