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access icon openaccess Dedicated real-time monitoring system for health care using ZigBee

This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/)
Received 29/04/2017, Accepted 31/05/2017, Revised 30/05/2017, Published 07/07/2017

Real-time monitoring systems (RTMSs) have drawn considerable attentions in the last decade. Several commercial versions of RTMS for patient monitoring are available which are used by health care professionals. Though they are working satisfactorily on various communication protocols, their range, power consumption, data rate and cost are really bothered. In this study, the authors present an efficient embedded system based wireless health care monitoring system using ZigBee. Their system has a capability to transmit the data between two embedded systems through two transceivers over a long range. In this, wireless transmission has been applied through two categories. The first part which contains Arduino with ZigBee will send the signals to the second device, which contains Raspberry with ZigBee. The second device will measure the patient data and send it to the first device through ZigBee transceiver. The designed system is demonstrated on volunteers to measure the body temperature which is clinically important to monitor and diagnose for fever in the patients.

Inspec keywords: patient monitoring; Zigbee; temperature measurement; real-time systems; wireless sensor networks; health care

Other keywords: ZigBee transceiver; real-time monitoring system; patient monitoring; fever diagnosis; wireless health care monitoring system; wireless transmission; body temperature measurement

Subjects: Sensing devices and transducers; Wireless sensor networks; Thermometry; Thermal variables measurement; Biomedical measurement and imaging; Biomedical engineering

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