Design, development and testing of a wireless sensor network for medical applications

IWCMC 2011 - 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 826-830

  Tsou, Yu Lin ^a   Berber, Stevan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram (ECG); Medical applications; Network Design; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG); LARGE NETWORKS; LOW COSTS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MEDICAL SENSOR NETWORKS; NETWORK DESIGN; PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME MONITORING; TEXAS INSTRUMENTS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ACCELEROMETERS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MOBILE COMPUTING; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 80052510462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC.2011.5982653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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