Remote Medical Monitoring Through Vehicular Ad Hoc Network
Venue
IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2008., IEEE, pp. 1-5
Publication Year
2008
Authors
Hyduke Noshadi, Eugenio Giordano, Hagop Hagopian, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla, Majid Sarrafzadeh
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Abstract
Several diseases and medical conditions require constant monitoring of
physiological signals and vital signs on daily bases, such as diabetics,
hypertension and etc. In order to make these patients capable of living their daily
life it is necessary to provide a platform and infrastructure that allows the
constant collection of physiological data even when the patient is not inside of
the coverage area. The data must be rapidly "transported" to care givers or to the
designated medical enterprise. The problem is particularly severe in case of
emergencies (e.g. natural disasters or hostile attacks) when the communications
infrastructure (e.g. cellular telephony, WiFi public access, etc) has failed or is
totally congested. In this paper we present an evaluation of of the vehicular
ad-hoc networks (VANET) as an alternate method of collecting patient pre-recorded
physiological data and at the same time reconfiguring patient medical wearable body
vests to select the data specifically requested by the physicians. Another
important use of vehicular collection of medical data from body vests is prompted
by the need to correlate pedestrian reaction to vehicular traffic hazards such as
chemical and noise pollution and traffic congestion. The vehicles collect noise,
chemical and traffic samples and can directly correlate with the "stress level" of
volunteers.
