This document describes a prototype for a cardiovascular activity and fitness monitoring system using biomedical sensor networks and the IEEE 11073 family of standards for medical device communication. The sensor nodes would acquire, retrieve, and communicate various physiological parameters using short-range wireless technologies defined by IEEE 11073-10441 and a medical-grade ZigBee network. The proposed prototype aims to report any severe cardiovascular issues without compromising patient mobility and convenience.

1. BIOMEDICAL SENSOR NETWORK FOR CARDIOVASCULAR
FITNESS AND ACTIVITY MONITORING
ABSTRACT:
This paper describes a prototype model for cardiovascular activity and fitness
monitoring system based on IEEE 11073 family of standard for medical device
communication. It identifies basic requirements for developing a biomedical sensor network
having resource limited sensor nodes to acquire, retrieve and communicate various
physiological parameters while using short range wireless technologies. IEEE 11073-10441
defines the set of protocols for tele-health environment at application layer and rest of the
communication infrastructure is covered by the medical grade ZigBee network. In healthcare,
space ZigBee provides an industry-wide standard for exchanging data between a variety of
medical and non-medical devices and ZigBee enabled medical devices are fully compatible
with ISO/IEEE 11073 for point-of-care medical device communication. The proposed
prototype model addresses design and development issues required to report any severe
cardiovascular malfunctioning without compromising mobility and convenience of the patient.