Abstract:
An increasing aged population worldwide promises to test
medical capabilities everywhere. A growing number of
groups - research and commercial - have taken on this
challenge of alleviating a potentially unmanageable
situation. They are looking at existing and novel ways to
care for the aged; however, it will still be some time
before the medical profession will accept such new
solutions. In this paper, the authors propose a smart,
adaptive remote health monitoring SJ stem as a solution.
They describe the building of a third implementation of a
remote health monitoring prototype using Motes, a PDA,
a personal server and a network management application
to show that commodity-based hardware can be a viable
solution. In addition, they describe their intent to use the
prototype in developing a system that can adapt to the
patient's condition and situation. Such an adaptive, smart
body area network (BAN) system requires a number of
issues to be addressed before commencing development;
these will also be discussed.
