Secured remote health monitoring system

Duraisamy Sathya; Pugalendhi Ganesh Kumar

Secured remote health monitoring system

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Author(s): Duraisamy Sathya¹ and Pugalendhi Ganesh Kumar²
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Kumaraguru College of Technology , Coimbatore, Tamilnadu , India ;
  2: Department of Information Technology , Anna University Regional Campus , Coimbatore, Tamilnadu , India
Source: Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2017, p. 228 – 232
DOI: 10.1049/htl.2017.0033 , Online ISSN 2053-3713

This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Received 06/05/2017, Accepted 06/06/2017, Revised 05/06/2017, Published 14/09/2017

Wireless medical sensor network is used in healthcare applications that have the collections of biosensors connected to a human body or emergency care unit to monitor the patient's physiological vital status. The real-time medical data collected using wearable medical sensors are transmitted to a diagnostic centre. The data generated from the sensors are aggregated at this centre and transmitted further to the doctor's personal digital assistant for diagnosis. The unauthorised access of one's health data may lead to misuse and legal complications while unreliable data transmission or storage may lead to life threatening risk to patients. So, this Letter combines the symmetric algorithm and attribute-based encryption to secure the data transmission and access control system for medical sensor network. In this work, existing systems and their algorithm are compared for identifying the best performance. The work also shows the graphical comparison of encryption time, decryption time and total computation time of the existing and the proposed systems.

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