TY - GEN
T1 - Experiences from deploying a heart rate monitoring system in a senior center
AU - Huang, Jyh How
AU - Wang, Tsu Te
AU - Su, Tzu Yao
AU - Lan, Kun-Chan
AU - Raknim, Paweeya
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Wearable sensor systems are widely used for vital sign monitoring in hospitals, and at homes in recent years. However, most of them are designed for bedridden patients in hospitals. Using wireless sensors to capture physiological data from patients for long term health monitoring in a health institution has become increasingly popular these days. Some previous studies recorded complaints from the users about the discomfort from wearing the devices. In addition, such a system sometimes can be interfered by the existing Wi-Fi traffic. Therefore, a sensor system that is comfortable to use and does not interfere with the existing wireless traffic is required. In this paper we present the system design that includes the probe, sensor, radio, and the receiver, for a long term heart rate monitoring system in a senior center. Our system has been deployed in a senior center since May 2012, and 63 seniors had used this system since then. The senior center has its own wireless network and we made no change to the existing network. Our monitoring system runs together with the existing network, and achieves a 97% packet delivery rate.
AB - Wearable sensor systems are widely used for vital sign monitoring in hospitals, and at homes in recent years. However, most of them are designed for bedridden patients in hospitals. Using wireless sensors to capture physiological data from patients for long term health monitoring in a health institution has become increasingly popular these days. Some previous studies recorded complaints from the users about the discomfort from wearing the devices. In addition, such a system sometimes can be interfered by the existing Wi-Fi traffic. Therefore, a sensor system that is comfortable to use and does not interfere with the existing wireless traffic is required. In this paper we present the system design that includes the probe, sensor, radio, and the receiver, for a long term heart rate monitoring system in a senior center. Our system has been deployed in a senior center since May 2012, and 63 seniors had used this system since then. The senior center has its own wireless network and we made no change to the existing network. Our monitoring system runs together with the existing network, and achieves a 97% packet delivery rate.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICTC.2013.6675377
DO - 10.1109/ICTC.2013.6675377
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84899432965
SN - 9781479906987
T3 - International Conference on ICT Convergence
SP - 383
EP - 388
BT - 2013 International Conference on ICT Convergence
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2013
Y2 - 14 October 2013 through 16 October 2013
ER -