Wireless sensor network based E-health system - Implementation and experimental results

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2288-2295

  Yan, Hairong ^a   Huo, Hongwei ^c   Xu, Youzhi ^b   Gidlund, Mikael ^d  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

e Health; Radio active positioning; Radio passive positioning; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DAILY ACTIVITY; E-HEALTH SYSTEMS; EHEALTH; ELDERLY PEOPLE; EMERGENCY ALARM; HEALTH STATUS; HOME USE; LIVING ENVIRONMENT; LOW COSTS; MULTI-SENSOR DATA; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES; SENIOR CITIZENS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

HEALTH; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; STOVES; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78651407350     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2010.5681102     Document Type: Article

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