Development of a ubiquitous emergency medical service system based on zigbee and 3.5g wireless communication technologies

Authors:
Ching-Su Chang;Tan-Hsu Tan;Yung-Fu Chen;Yung-Fa Huang;Ming-Huei Lee;Jin-Chyr Hsu;Hou-Chaung Chen
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufeng Township, Taichung County, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taichung Hospital, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taichung Hospital, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taichung Hospital, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Venue:
ICMB'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Medical Biometrics
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This study builds a ubiquitous emergency medical service (EMS) system with sensor devices, a smartphone, a webcam, Zigbee, and a 3.5G wireless network. To avoid excessive wiring, a Zigbee-based wireless sensor network within the ambulance records the patient's biosignals, which includes an electrocardiogram (ECG), pulse, blood oxygen content, and temperature. Those biosignals are then transmitted to the Server located in the hospital emergency room via 3.5G wireless network for immediate first-aid preparation. This process significantly enhances EMS quality. Our experiment demonstrates biosignal transmission in real time for EMS application. In the future, we will promote the proposed system to WiMAX network when it becomes more pervasive in Taiwan to offer a much higher data throughput.