BIOMEDICAL SENSOR NETWORK FOR CARDIOVASCULAR

FITNESS AND ACTIVITY MONITORING

ABSTRACT:

This paper describes a prototype model for cardiovascular activity and fitness

monitoring system based on IEEE 11073 family of standard for medical device

communication. It identifies basic requirements for developing a biomedical sensor network

having resource limited sensor nodes to acquire, retrieve and communicate various

physiological parameters while using short range wireless technologies. IEEE 11073-10441

defines the set of protocols for tele-health environment at application layer and rest of the

communication infrastructure is covered by the medical grade ZigBee network. In healthcare,

space ZigBee provides an industry-wide standard for exchanging data between a variety of

medical and non-medical devices and ZigBee enabled medical devices are fully compatible

with ISO/IEEE 11073 for point-of-care medical device communication. The proposed

prototype model addresses design and development issues required to report any severe

cardiovascular malfunctioning without compromising mobility and convenience of the patient.