Sensors 2015, 15(5), 11993-12021; https://doi.org/10.3390/s150511993
Survey of WBSNs for Pre-Hospital Assistance: Trends to Maximize the Network Lifetime and Video Transmission Techniques
Enrique Gonzalez 1,*, Raul Peña 1, Cesar Vargas-Rosales 1, Alfonso Avila 1 and David Perez-Diaz De Cerio 2
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Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Col. Tecnológico, Monterrey, NL 64849, Mexico
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Technical University of Catalonia, C./Esteve Terradas 7, Castelldefels, Barcelona 08860, Spain
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Academic Editor: Nauman Aslam
Received: 14 October 2014 / Accepted: 18 May 2015 / Published: 22 May 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Sensor Network for Pervasive Medical Care)
Abstract
This survey aims to encourage the multidisciplinary communities to join forces for innovation in the mobile health monitoring area. Specifically, multidisciplinary innovations in medical emergency scenarios can have a significant impact on the effectiveness and quality of the procedures and practices in the delivery of medical care. Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are a promising technology capable of improving the existing practices in condition assessment and care delivery for a patient in a medical emergency. This technology can also facilitate the early interventions of a specialist physician during the pre-hospital period. WBSNs make possible these early interventions by establishing remote communication links with video/audio support and by providing medical information such as vital signs, electrocardiograms, etc. in real time. This survey focuses on relevant issues needed to understand how to setup a WBSN for medical emergencies. These issues are: monitoring vital signs and video transmission, energy efficient protocols, scheduling, optimization and energy consumption on a WBSN. View Full-TextKeywords:
wireless body sensor network; emergency mobile healthcare; optimization system for adaptive model; energy consumption
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Gonzalez, E.; Peña, R.; Vargas-Rosales, C.; Avila, A.; De Cerio, D.P.-D. Survey of WBSNs for Pre-Hospital Assistance: Trends to Maximize the Network Lifetime and Video Transmission Techniques. Sensors 2015, 15, 11993-12021.