UUTE Home Network for Wireless Health Monitoring

This paper presents a home sensor network for wireless health monitoring, including a wireless sensor network, client for controlling the sensor network, and a data storage server. A common software and hardware microcontroller-sensor interface was defined to enable joint use of sensor technologies developed in three different projects. IEEE 802.15.4 RF-transceiver based radio-boards and ZigBee network software were designed and built, along with a simple sensor network software on top of the ZigBee stack, to implement the wireless sensor network. Both commercial and custom made sensors have been interfaced to the sensor network. A set-up consisting of four sensors was developed and tested in a real home environment. The architectural overview of the system and main technical design choices are presented.

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