HM4All: A vital signs monitoring system based in spatially distributed ZigBee networks

2010 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fernández López, Helena ^a   Afonso, José A ^a   Correia, J H ^a   Simões, Ricardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

Author keywords

HM4All; Vital signals monitoring; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

HEALTHCARE FACILITY; HM4ALL; ITS ARCHITECTURE; LOW DATA RATES; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MONITORING SYSTEM; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; VITAL SIGN; VITAL SIGNALS; VITAL SIGNALS MONITORING; WIRELESS SENSOR; ZIG-BEE; ZIGBEE NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77954404089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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