Telecommunication Software and Systems Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2012 Nov;59(11):3238-46. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2208110. Epub 2012 Jul 11.
Wireless body area networks (WBAN) provide a tremendous opportunity for remote health monitoring. However, engineering WBAN health monitoring systems encounters a number of challenges including efficient WBAN monitoring information extraction, dynamically fine tuning the monitoring process to suit the quality of data, and to allow the translation of high-level requirements of medical officers to low-level sensor reconfiguration. This paper addresses these challenges, by proposing an architecture that allows virtual groups to be formed between devices of patients, nurses, and doctors in order to enable remote analysis of WBAN data. Group formation and modification is performed with respect to patients' conditions and medical officers' requirements, which could be easily adjusted through high-level policies. We also propose, a new metric called the Quality of Health Monitoring, which allows medical officers to provide feedback on the quality of WBAN data received. The WBAN data gathered are transmitted to the virtual group members through an underlying environmental sensor network. The proposed approach is evaluated through a series of simulation.
无线体域网 (WBAN) 为远程健康监测提供了巨大的机会。然而，工程 WBAN 健康监测系统会遇到许多挑战，包括有效提取 WBAN 监测信息、动态调整监测过程以适应数据质量，并允许将医疗人员的高级要求转换为低级别传感器重新配置。本文通过提出一种架构来解决这些挑战，该架构允许在患者、护士和医生的设备之间形成虚拟组，以实现对 WBAN 数据的远程分析。组的形成和修改是根据患者的病情和医务人员的要求进行的，这些要求可以通过高级策略轻松调整。我们还提出了一种称为健康监测质量的新指标，允许医务人员对收到的 WBAN 数据的质量提供反馈。通过底层环境传感器网络将收集到的 WBAN 数据传输到虚拟组的成员。通过一系列仿真来评估所提出的方法。
