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Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities
IEEE Pervasive Computing
A Mobile-Care System Integrated with Bluetooth Blood Pressure and Pulse Monitor, and Cellular Phone
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
Wireless Communications & Networks (2nd Edition)
Wireless Communications & Networks (2nd Edition)
Smart Homecare System for Health Tele-monitoring
ICDS '07 Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Digital Society
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Mobile Networks and Applications
Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementation
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Home telecare system using cable television plants - an experimental field trial
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Real-time ECG transmission via Internet for nonclinical applications
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Implementation of a WAP-based telemedicine system for patient monitoring
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
AMON: a wearable multiparameter medical monitoring and alert system
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
A wireless PDA-based physiological monitoring system for patient transport
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
A Mobile Care System With Alert Mechanism
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
IEEE Communications Magazine
Patient monitoring using ad hoc wireless networks: reliability and power management
IEEE Communications Magazine
Prevailing over wires in healthcare environments: benefits and challenges
IEEE Communications Magazine
Physiological monitoring system for mobile healthcare applications
Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology
Wireless sensor networks for healthcare: A survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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For the elderly and chronic patients with cardiovascular disease who live alone, it is necessary to constantly monitor their physiological parameters, especially the electrocardiogram (ECG), to effectively prevent and control their health condition and even to provide urgent treatment or care while an emergency such as the abnormal variation of heart rate (HR) occurs. In this paper, a wireless in-home physiological monitoring system, based on multi-hop relay communications, which can ubiquitously and continuously monitor the patient's ECG at any time or any place at home without space limit and the ''dead spot'' due to the extended communication coverage by multi-hop wireless connectivity, is proposed. The system consists of a mobile-care device, which is responsible for capturing and wirelessly sending the patient's ECG data, a wireless multi-hop relay network (WMHRN) that is in charge of relaying the data sent by the former, and a residential gateway (RG), which is responsible for gathering and uploading the received ECG data to the remote care server through the Internet to carry out the patient's health condition monitoring and the management of pathological data. However, in order to assure that the ECG data can be effectively and timely forwarded, from the mobile-care device to the RG through the WMHRN, to meet the healthcare quality of service (H-QoS) demand for reliable and real-time end-to-end ECG transmission, the analysis of WMHRN latency in data-forwarding stage and the deployment consideration of wireless relay nodes are investigated in detail in this work. Moreover, an emergency alert service using short message service (SMS), based on the detection of abnormal variation of HR, is also used in the RG to further enhance the healthcare service quality. A prototype of this system has been developed and implemented. Finally, the experimental results are presented to verify the feasibility of the proposed system.