Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v4i3.218
Application of Wireless Sensor Networks to Healthcare Promotion
Paulo Neves
; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Michal Stachyra
; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Joel Rodrigues
; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Sažetak
Born on military applications, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) application grew on the promise of environment sensing and data processing capability at low cost. These networks can hold hundreds or even thousands of smart sensing nodes with processing and sensing capabilities and even integrated power through a dedicated battery. This paper surveys on the application of wireless sensor networks to healthcare promotion, namely with the use of biosensor technology applied to body sensor networks. On a wireless body sensor network, a person wears biosensors to gather data, while doing their daily activities. Currently, engineers and medical staff are cooperating on finding new ways to properly gather meaningful data on-site and achieve a convenient way to process these data for research and on-site medical decision. New challenges that such approach brings are also considered. Moreover, it is shown that wireless sensor networks provide the technology to built wireless sensing and create a convenient infrastructure for multiple data gathering in healthcare applications. Together with real successful examples, we demonstrate the great usefulness of wireless sensor networks in healthcare promotion. The paper concludes with some guidelines for future work.
Ključne riječi
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs); Healthcare; Body Sensor Networks (BSNs); m-Health; Biofeedback; Smart Biosensor
Hrčak ID:
180529
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.9.2008.
Posjeta: 5.305 *