Testbed for Pervasive Health Monitoring Applications

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Test-bed for Pervasive Health Monitoring
Applications

• Sandeep Gupta
• IMPACT LAB

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Introduction

• Goal
• Implement a functional health monitoring test-bed
  that will allows us to develop and test
  dependable, secure, reliable communication
  protocols.
• Possible Applications
• Disaster Relief
• Monitoring patients in hospital
• Home based health monitoring
• Monitor soldiers health under combat conditions

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Test-bed for Remote Health Monitoring
Doctor
Patient 1
Medical Information Infrastructure
Patient 2
External Communication Network
Site of Patient
On-site Central Computer
Ambulance
Hospital
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Sensors

Mote communication
USB/ Serial Communication
802.11b ad-hoc mode
External Communication Network
PROPOSED TEST-BED
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Serial communication
CURRENT ARCHITECTURE
802.11b ad-hoc mode, web based data access
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Implementation Issues

• Mote to PDA communication is a challenge
• Server to PDA data exchange
• Current is HTTP based
• Developing a Java based communication solution
• Displaying data on a PDA.

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Research Issues

• Reliability of communication
• Energy-Efficient data gathering and multicasting
• Localization
• Secure communication
• Multi-hop communication support
• Communication support for health emergencies
• Higher reliability
• Reduced security overhead
• Support for following types of communication
• Query Based
• Event Based
• Continuous