REQUIREMENTS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR A HEALTHCARE WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK

Finn Overgaard Hansen, Thomas Skjødeberg Toftegaard

2011

Abstract

Wireless body area networks enable new opportunities for personal healthcare monitoring and personal healthcare applications. This paper presents a comprehensive set of requirements and challenges for building a wireless body area network to support diverse user groups and a corresponding set of healthcare applications. Based on the identified requirements, the paper presents an architecture for a wireless body area network and describes how this architecture is connected to an existing it-infrastructure supporting healthcare at home. Finally the paper presents our on-going research with development of an ASE-BAN test bed. The major goal for this test bed is to be a platform for research and experiments with development of an ultra-low power body area network including sensor, communication nodes, communication protocols and a body gateway component.

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Overgaard Hansen F. and Skjødeberg Toftegaard T. (2011). REQUIREMENTS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR A HEALTHCARE WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-34-8, pages 193-199. DOI: 10.5220/0003138601930199


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@conference{healthinf11,
author={Finn Overgaard Hansen and Thomas Skjødeberg Toftegaard},
title={REQUIREMENTS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR A HEALTHCARE WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={193-199},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003138601930199},
isbn={978-989-8425-34-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011)
TI - REQUIREMENTS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR A HEALTHCARE WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK
SN - 978-989-8425-34-8
AU - Overgaard Hansen F.
AU - Skjødeberg Toftegaard T.
PY - 2011
SP - 193
EP - 199
DO - 10.5220/0003138601930199