Customizing 6LoWPAN networks towards Internet-of-Things based ubiquitous healthcare systems

Embedded devices with enhanced communication capabilities, Internet of Things (IoT), are able to perform a wide variety of different tasks at present. One rapidly increasing application domain is healthcare. In this paper, we present an IoT-based architecture and system implementation for healthcare applications. The presented IoT-based system provides a cost-effective and easy way to analyze and monitor, either remotely or on the spot, real-time health data such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electromyography (EMG) data. Health data is transmitted by utilizing IPv6 over low power wireless area networks (6LoWPAN). Our efficient customization of the 6LoWPAN network for health data provides energy efficient and reliable transmission in different scenarios that is required in several healthcare applications.

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