Technological advancement in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) has gained much interest and became an emerging technology in the remote healthcare monitoring as WBANs are a collection of low-power, intelligent, miniaturized, lightweight, invasive or non-invasive bio sensors that operate in the proximity of a human body through wireless communication. They offer innovative and promising healthcare applications to improve the quality of life of patients by continuously monitoring human’s physiological vital signs. Based on existing literature on WBANs, technologies and standards, this paper proposes a WBAN to support remote healthcare monitoring of diabetic patients by ensuring higher degree of confidence in Quality of Information (QoI) through real-time data. The proposed architecture includes several features which enables better patient monitoring. Moreover, a qualitative approach is used to evaluate the systems’ architecture. Finally, the open research challenges and future works associated with WBANs design are discussed and evaluated.
Citation
Huzooree, G., Khedo, K. K., & Joonas, N. (2016, November). Wireless Body Area Network System Architecture for Real-Time Diabetes Monitoring. Presented at First International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering (ELECOM 2016), Bagatelle, Mauritius
Presentation Conference Type
Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name
First International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering (ELECOM 2016)
Start Date
Nov 25, 2016
End Date
Nov 27, 2016
Online Publication Date
Jan 21, 2017
Publication Date
2017
Deposit Date
Sep 25, 2024
Publisher
Springer
Peer Reviewed
Peer Reviewed
Pages
262-271
Series Title
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Series ISSN
1876-1100
Book Title
Emerging Trends in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering (ELECOM 2016)
