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WSN4QoL: WSNs for remote patient monitoring in e-Health applications
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Author:
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Tennina, Stefano; Santos, Manuel; Mesodiakaki, Agapi; Mekikis, Prodromos Vasileios; Antonopoulos, Angelos; di Renzo, Marco; Stavridis, Athanasios; Graziosi, Fabio; Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga; Verikoukis, Christos
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. WiComTec - Grup de recerca en Tecnologies i Comunicacions Sense Fils |
Abstract:
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Contemporary technologies as implemented in the field of healthcare have provided the everyday clinical practice with a plethora of tools to be used in various settings. In this field, distributed and networked embedded systems, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), are the most promising technology to achieve continuous
monitoring of aged people for their own safety, without affecting their daily activities. WSN4QoL is a Marie Curie project involving academic and industrial partners from three EU countries, which aims to show how new WSNsbased
technologies suit the specific requirements of pervasive healthcare applications. In particular, in this paper, the WSN4QoL's system architecture is presented as designed to exploit the Network Coding (NC) mechanisms to achieve
energy efficiency in the wireless communications and distributed positioning solutions to locate patients in indoor home environments. The system has been validated through experimental activities using commercial off the shelf (COTS)
WSN testbeds and medical devices prototypes offered by a commercial partner. Results demonstrate that NC helps in achieving substantial gains in terms of energy efficiency as compared to traditional relay mechanisms, while the
proposed positioning solution is able to locate people in indoor environments at a sub-room accuracy level, without requiring any extra dedicated hardware. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Comunicacions mòbils -Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies::Eficiència energètica -Wireless communication systems -Biomedical engineering -Wireless sensor networks -Biomedical equipment -Embedded systems -Energy efficiency -Health care -Network coding -Patient monitoring -Remote patient monitoring -Wireless telecommunication systems -Commercial off-the shelves -Distributed positioning -e-Health applications – Experimental activities -Networked embedded systems -Pervasive healthcare application -Wireless communications -Wireless sensor network (WSNs) -Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de -Enginyeria biomèdica -Xarxes de sensors sense fils |
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
Published by:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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