A reliable wireless nurse call system: overview and pilot results from a summer camp for teenagers with duchenne muscular dystrophy

  • Authors:

  • Marco Zimmerling;Federico Ferrari;Roman Lim;Olga Saukh;Felix Sutton;Reto Da Forno;Remo S. Schmidt;Marc André Wyss

  • Affiliations:

  • ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Muscular Dystrophy Association of Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland;Muscular Dystrophy Association of Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present the design of a reliable nurse call system based on wireless embedded devices and multi-hop protocols. Our work is motivated by the need for such system during annual summer camps for people with muscular dystrophy and the lack of suitable alternative solutions. We describe how our prototype meets the reliability and real-time requirements of such system, and report on results from a two-week deployment during a camp with 13 affected boys in July 2013.