Wireless integrated network sensors
Communications of the ACM
Security in wireless sensor networks
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology, Protocols, and Applications
Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology, Protocols, and Applications
Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey
Ad Hoc Networks
An adaptive middleware applied to the ad-hoc nature of cardiac health care
Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services
Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementation
Computer Communications
Towards a security policy for ubiquitous healthcare systems
ICUCT'06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Ubiquitous convergence technology
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
Practical laboratory project in telemedicine: Supervision of electrocardiograms by mobile telephony
IEEE Transactions on Education
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Advances in wireless sensor networking (WSN) have opened up new opportunities in distributed informatics. Pervasive healthcare, based on WSN, is an emerging technology area with great potential of future applicability. Small size devices capable of sensing, computing and communicating, enable pervasive platforms; while opening up the large number of technical, medical, social and ethical questions and challenges. Though mostly focused on technical issues, this chapter also addresses some non-technical aspects implied by the technology implementation in medicine. It presents the general philosophy of the pervasive computing and technical design space of wireless sensor networks, mostly highlighting: the energy conservation, communication aspects, security, and software implementation. The state of the art in ubiquitous healthcare, challenges, open questions, as well as the non-technical aspects of the systems implementation are also presented here. As such, this chapter intends to give an insight on most important WSN-based pervasive computing issues, the multidisciplinary application-driven design of these systems, and their position in healthcare pervasive computing.