Ad-hoc wireless sensor communications for health monitoring systems

by, Prof. Dr. Mimoza DURRESI

Abstract

The Covid 19 challenge, the increased aging population, and the modern way of living are increasing the need for health monitoring communications services. Healthcare monitoring is a very important research field of study. This is related in finding new, more efficient ways in health data communications with three main quality of service requirements: low delay, high security, high quality data transmission. Considering these requirements and recent developments in domestical health monitoring services, it is important not only the equipment used for health monitoring sensing but also the communication protocol used to access the data center. In this paper we develop a new communication protocol for ad-hoc wireless network created by the sensors used for personal health monitoring systems installed in patient wrists. This is a hierarchical protocol where the sensors communicate through a virtual infrastructure that helps to collect the data from the personal health monitoring equipments in an efficient way even in the areas with no wireless infrastructure. The communication scheme ensures a hierarchy of nodes that gets translated to hierarchy of costs as only a few nodes need to have a larger processing power resulting in a lower battery consumption for most of the patients. The neighbourhood area is divided into virtual cells where each cell is represented from one node center that holds the communication for all the surrounded nodes and forwards its information towards the next cell center found in the direction of the sink. As a result the information collected even in the fields without any wireless infrastructure might be carried towards the cells that are in a communication distance with the sink. The updated information data is forwarded toward the data centers to be analysed by the specialists. Taking in consideration that even in the urban areas the elderly population doesn’t have internet services, this ad-hoc communication protocol represents a good solution for health monitoring equipments. Moreover the same communication protocol can be used for signaling life signs in war areas.

Keywords: Wireless sensors networks, virtual infrastructure, wireless sensors protocols, health monitoring equipments.

How to cite: Durresi, M. (2022). Ad-hoc wireless sensor communications for Health Monitoring Systems. Ingenious, 2(1), 7–14.

https://doi.org/10.58944/rycc2468