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.