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Remote Medical Monitoring Through Vehicular Ad Hoc Network
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| Abstract |
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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 adhoc
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.
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Paper: PDF file of paper
Slides: PPT file of slides
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International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications, (WiVeC 2008), Calgary, Canada, September. 2008
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Hyduke Noshadi
Eugenio Giordano
Hagop Hagopian
Giovanni Pau
Mario Gerla
Majid Sarrafzadeh
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