Pervasive E-health Services Using the DVB-RCS Communication Technology

Authors:
Demosthenes Vouyioukas;Ilias Maglogiannis;Vasilios Pasias
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 83200;Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 83200;Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK PO1 3DJ and Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A., Schimatari, Greece
Venue:
Journal of Medical Systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Two-way satellite broadband communication technologies, such as the Digital Video Broadcasting with Return Channel via Satellite (DVB-RCS) technology, endeavour to offer attractive wide-area broadband connectivity for telemedicine applications, taking into consideration the available data rates, Quality of Service (QoS) provision, survivability, flexibility and operational costs, even in remote areas and isolated regions where the terrestrial technologies suffer. This paper describes a wide-area tele-medicine platform, specially suited for homecare services, based on the DVB-RCS and Wi-Fi communication technologies. The presented platform combines medical data acquisition and transfer, patient remote monitoring and teleconference services. Possible operational scenarios concerning this platform and experimental results regarding tele-monitoring, videoconference and medical data transfer are also provided and discussed in the paper.