Abstract
Current medical facilities usually lead to a very high cost especially for developing countries, rural areas and mass casualty incidents. Therefore, advanced electronic health systems are gaining momentum. In this paper, we first compared our novel off the shelf experimental wired Body Sensor Networks (BSN), that is, Digital First Aid (DigiAID) with the existing commercial product called as Hexoskin. We showed the viability of DigiAID through extensive real measurements during daily activities by both male and females. It was found that the major hurdle was wires to be worn by the subjects. Accordingly, we proposed and characterized the wireless DigiAID platform for wireless BSN (WBSN). Understanding the effect of body movements on wireless data transmission in WBSN is also of major importance. Therefore, this paper comprehensively evaluates and analyzes the impact of body movements, (a) to ensure transmission of data at different radio power levels and (b) its impact on the topology of the WBSN. Based on this we have proposed a dynamic power control algorithm that adapts the transmitting power according to the packet reception in an energy efficient manner. The results show that we have achieved substantial power savings at various nodes attached to the human body.
Highlights
Electronic health (e-Health) and mobile health (m-Health) are increasingly considered to be key drivers for the progress of Internet of Things (IoT) based tele-health systems [1]
The Digital First Aid (DigiAID), an open and cost-effective experimental platform for monitoring the human health conditions is compared with commercially available product called as Hexoskin
We showed the viability of DigiAID through extensive real measurements during daily activities by both male and females
Summary
Electronic health (e-Health) and mobile health (m-Health) are increasingly considered to be key drivers for the progress of Internet of Things (IoT) based tele-health systems [1]. Measuring the heart rate, body temperature or recording a prolonged electrocardiogram (ECG) These wearable or implantable sensors communicate with the base station (BS) to collect the data and transmit it to the medical. We have used eight sensor nodes over human body at different places pertaining to monitoring application of different body parameters [6] for our wireless DigiAID. This results in unreliable delivery of data which can be life threatening for a patient Another key contribution of the paper is to perform series of experiments to observe the impact of body movements over the topology and power utilized to transfer the data in wireless DigiAID.
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