Collective Sensing for Health Care
A wireless sensing system when implemented in health-care settings can provide significant advantages over the traditional patient data collection schemes by facilitating faster response, better rehabilitation, and improved patient care. Unlike industrial
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Abstract A wireless sensing system when implemented in health-care settings can provide significant advantages over the traditional patient data collection schemes by facilitating faster response, better rehabilitation, and improved patient care. Unlike industrial and environmental sensor network systems, the application of wireless sensor networks in health care requires the use of multiple sensors on many patients. This chapter discusses implementation issues and presents details of techniques for implementation of wireless sensors in large-scale health-care environments for remote patient monitoring. Keywords Patient monitoring, Telemedicine, Wearable sensors, Wireless sensors
Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Wireless Sensors for Medical Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Collective Sensing for Multi-patient Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1 Introduction Telemedicine has been used for a long period of time in remote patient monitoring applications [1]. The term telemedicine refers to the use of information and communication technologies to support health care and improve performance of
M.R. Yuce (*) Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia e-mail: [email protected] D. Filippini (ed.), Autonomous Sensor Networks: Collective Sensing Strategies for Analytical Purposes, 307 Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors (2013) 13: 307–320 DOI 10.1007/5346_2012_32, # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012, Published online: 12 August 2012
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medical staff at a distance. For example, the early telemedicine concept used the telephone for consultation, diagnosis, and triage. In addition to health care, telemedicine has efficiently been used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to monitor physiological signals of space crew. It has also been applied to military applications [2]. Over the past decades, the advances in wireless technology especially with the help of integrated circuit (IC) technology have enabled us to form small wireless devices that can be utilized in medicine and health care [3]. These new wireless devices have facilitated new sensing techniques in health-care applic
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