Evaluation of ZigBee™ for medical sensor networks

WSEAS Transactions on Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 121-125

  Hofmann, Christian ^a   Weigand, Christian ^a   Bernhard, Josef ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Body Area Network (BAN); Home care; Medical sensor network; Telemedicine; Wireless sensor network patient monitoring; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; HOME CARE; MEDICAL SENSOR NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK PATIENT MONITORING;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645146773     PISSN: 11099445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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