On designing a system to supervise patients’ vital signs through wireless sensor network

Abstract

The demand of health care of citizens has been increasing with the development of economy nowadays. In health care, the measurements of body temperature, heart rate… are the most interested. The medical specialists normally concern about these parameters when running a healthy check or evaluation of the effectiveness of a therapeutic method in general. Besides, surveillance of the parameters is important to detect bad signals of patients for timely treatment. Recently, the overcrowding in hospitals that have long become the concern of the health sectors in particular and whole society in general. With the application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to design and build a sensor which is capable of monitoring the heartbeat and body temperature parameters will be the solution to help take care of health for patients effectively, and will actively support for physicians in the treatment process. In this paper we introduce the design of a system that can monitor heart rate and body temperature of the patient in an effective and accurate manner through wireless sensor network.