A WSN Based Framework for Human Health Monitoring

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is neoteric progressing technology which addresses solutions to critical application environments. It allows the assimilation of medical sensors to form a group scenario which makes it feasible to remotely collect and communicate the physiological signals of a patient, thus preventing the patient from being tied to a particular set of monitoring medical instruments and thereby facilitate the patient's prior acquittal from the hospital. The sensor nodes adhered to the human body form a network and transmit the collected data to the medical server at a remote location via internet thus forming a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). We propose a framework for WBAN which discusses the working of the WBAN in three phases and the parameters which influence the working of each phase. Further the work also concentrates to generate a full fledged monitoring system for patient monitoring in health care.

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