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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of BIOLOGY and BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Transactions ID Number: 19-395
Full Name: Radu Dobrescu
Position: Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: 313 Splaiul Independentei, Sector 4, Bucharest
Country: ROMANIA
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E-mail address: rd_dobrescu@yahoo.com
Other E-mails: dan_popescu_2002@yahoo.com
Title of the Paper: Hybrid wireless sensor network for homecare monitoring of chronic patients
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Radu Dobrescu, Dan Popescu, Maximilian Nicolae, and Stefan Mocanu
Email addresses of all the authors: rd_dobrescu@yahoo.com,dan_popescu_2002@yahoo.com,max.nicolae@gmail.com
Number of paper pages: 8
Abstract: The paper presents a hybrid wireless sensor network which contains both mobile and fixed nodes, which enables the monitoring of chronic patients and their home environment via normal or, if necessary, emergency communication with long-distance transmitting system like Internet. Each patient and his/her home compose a hybrid node, i.e. a sensor node pair, one for patient (mobile) and one for his/her environment (mobile or fixed). The hybrid node is integrated in a real-time homecare monitoring system able to monitor and diagnose patients outside hospital and also to control the home/car ambiance. If the patient is transported by specially equipped car, the hybrid node becomes fully mobile. Because the number of assisted patients is time-dependent, we can consider that the hybrid node belongs to a scalable ad-hoc wireless sensor network (WSN). This WSN covers an administrative delimited area and contains a central fixed node which monitors the patients and emergency !
communication and also makes decision for the entire network. One can say that the network has three levels: basic (hybrid nodes for chronic patients), medium (general practitioner and ambulances), and high level (specific physicians at hospital and city hall services). Both nodes, mobile and fixed are presented as same as the design stages which drove to respective hardware architecture. From the software architecture it is described the communication engine because of the particularity in its implementation. Several critical tests were made for reliability of the architecture and some of the results are presented.
Keywords: hybrid wireless sensor network, homecare system, remote sensing and diagnosis, digital signal processing, communication technologies
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Special (Invited) Session: Integration of WSN-based platform in a homecare monitoring system
Organizer of the Session: 102-327
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