2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (mue 2008)
Development of Telemedicine and Telecare over Wireless Sensor Network
April 24-April 26
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3134-2
Telemedicine & Telecare aided by wireless sensor network (WSN) has recently become a health-caring trend in the future. However, the low data rate of WSN limited the acceptable quality of service. Researches [1-6] adopted ZigBee-based WSN to implement a platform and/or a telecare system. However, the capacity problem due to low data rate characteristic has not been addressed. Our research proposed an arrhythmia-aware telecare system and a new DSP-based WSN platform, enabling good digital signal processing performance in ZigBee-based WSN. Proved by simulations and several real tests, combination of the proposed platform and system can provide a more bandwidth-conserving and reliable telecare system, with lower wireless traffic jam and higher stability.
Index Terms:
Telemedicine, Wireless Sensor Network, ZigBee, DSP, Discrete Wavelet Transform
Citation:
Shuo-Jen Hsu, Hsin-Hsien Wu, Shih-Wei Chen, Tsang-Chi Liu, Wen-Tzeng Huang, Yuan-Jen Chang, Chin-Hsing Chen, You-Yin Chen, "Development of Telemedicine and Telecare over Wireless Sensor Network," mue, pp.597-604, 2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (mue 2008), 2008